 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1850 - 758 pages
...The Poet of our age has apostrophised Duty in words which we should all make onr own : " To humble functions, awful Power, I call thee. I myself commend Unto thy guidance from tills hour. Oh, let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice;... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 578 pages
...dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee :...And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! THE LABORER S NOONDAY HYMN. UP to the throne of God is borne The voice of praise at early morn ;... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, ore fresh and strong. To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee :...reason give ; And in the light of truth thy Bondman let mo live ! IBM. CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR. WHO is the happy Warrior Ï Who is he That every man... | |
 | Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 1855 - 800 pages
...of God into my bosom steal. 129 130 GEORGE MULLER, THE ORPHAN'S FRIEND. (Continued from page 105.) Oh let my weakness have an end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice. — Wordsworth. The good begun by thee shall onward flow In many a branching sueam, and wider grow.... | |
 | Nathan Welby Fiske - Sermons - 1850 - 414 pages
...seventh stanza of Wordsworth's Ode to Duty — a stanza quoted by Coleridge with high approbation : " I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this hour...And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live." How perfectly natural to the Christian heart is this prayer for an entire subjection of the soul to... | |
 | Heman Humphrey - College teachers - 1850 - 414 pages
...stanza quoted by Coleridge with high approbation : " I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this honr ; Oh, let my weakness have an end ; Give unto me, made...And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live." How perfectly natural to the Christian heart is this prayer for an entire subjection of the soul to... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 492 pages
...as subservient to one spirit, concludes his address to the power of Duty in the following words: 1 ' To humbler functions, awful Power! I call thee; I...And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!' MM'" Twenty years after this Essay was written, Mr. Wordsworth thus briefly adverted to the subject... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 pages
...Poet of our age has apostrophised Duty in words which we all should make our own : — " To humble functions, awful Power, I call thee. I myself commend...confidence of reason give, And in the light of Truth thy bondsman let me live." It is a beautiful arrangement in the mental and moral economy of our nature... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 488 pages
...subservient to one spirit, concludes his address to the power of Duty in the following words : x ' To humbler functions, awful Power ! I call thee ;...end ! Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self- sacrifice ; The confidence of Reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!'... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1851 - 750 pages
...his address to the power of Duty in the following words : To humbler functions, awful Power ! I rail thee : I myself commend Unto thy guidance from this...me, made lowly wise The spirit of self-sacrifice; T/ie confidence of roam give ! And in the tight of Truth thy Bondman let me live '" — W. W COLEMDOK... | |
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Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 1805. 
