 He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor, perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own.  Poems, - Page 185by William Cowper - 1803 - 363 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pages
...for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes. He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains,... | |
 | Azubah Clark - 1830 - 244 pages
...measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance!" How truly happy he, who Looks abroad into the varied field Of Nature; and though poor, perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery his own. Hia are the mountains,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...for hie harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off, With as much ease as Samson his green withes. He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor, perhaps, comparM With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scen'ry all his own. His... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green with*. He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, 1 Soo Hume. Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - Islands of the Pacific - 1831 - 384 pages
...pretension to the character drawn — to Cowper's lines on " The freeman whom the truth makes free :" He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains,... | |
 | Jared Bell - Theology, Practical - 1832 - 226 pages
...eternity. The mountains tower the more sublimely, because they point his thoughts upward to heaven. " He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature ; and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains,... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - Islands of the Pacific - 1832 - 366 pages
...a pretension to the character drawn, to Cowper's lines on " The freeman whom the truth makes free:" He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains,... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - Christian life - 1832 - 450 pages
...adversity, to the fearful probability of being found to abuse the mercies of a different condition. He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor, perhaps, compar'd With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own.... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease, as Samson his green withes. 5 He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps, comparV With those whose mansions glitter in his sight. Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 pages
...strikingly descriptive of the refined pleasure with which the Christian can view the works of nature. ' He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature ; and though poor, perhaps, compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight. Calls the delightful scenery all his own : His are the mountains,... | |
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