 | Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1818 - 506 pages
...Underneath is this quotation from his " Winter:" Father of Light and Life, Thou Good Snpreme ! O, tcacb me what is good ! teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, anil vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my sonl With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure... | |
 | Jesse Appleton - 1820 - 222 pages
...human affairs, but especially at the present interesting moment, prefer to Heaven the poet's prayer. " Father of light and life ! Thou Good Supreme ! O teach...Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ! And feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...resolv'd, With ncw-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and life ! thou good Supreme ! 0, p T+ pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading... | |
 | Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1820 - 774 pages
...quotation from his " Winter:" " Father of Light and Life! Thou Good Supreme! O, teach me what is good I teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit 1 and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading... | |
 | Thomas Kitson Cromwell - Surrey (England) - 1821 - 300 pages
...satisfaction of his admirers, in the year of our Lord 1792." Underneath is a quotation from the Winter; Father of Light and Life ! Thou Good Supreme! O, teach...Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - NEH British History Preservation Project - 1996 - 1821 - 314 pages
...of our Lord 1792." Underneath is a quotation from the Winter; Falherof Light and Life! Thou Clone! Supreme! O, teach me what is good! Teach me Thyself!...Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots - Poets, Scottish - 1821 - 414 pages
...of his admirers, in the year of our Lord, 1792. " Father of Light and Life, Thou Good Supreme, Oh, teach me what is good ! Teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ! And feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure : Sacred, substantial,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...scene of crude disjointed visions pass'd, And broken slumbers, rises still resolved, With new-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and...Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1822 - 336 pages
...sometimes a little prayer, which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz. " Father of light and life, thou God supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me thyself...Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial,... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots, London - Authors, Scottish - 1822 - 458 pages
...of his admirers, in the year of our Lord, 1792. " Father of Light and Life, Thou Good Supreme, Oh, teach me what is good ! Teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ! And feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure : Sacred, substantial,... | |
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Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading... 
