 | Thomas Russell - 1834 - 612 pàgines
...pleasure in perfection is. 145. CM — Human frailty and divine aid. 1 WEAK and irresolute is man : The purpose of to-day, Woven with pains into his plan, To-morrow rends away. 2 Life's voyage is of awful length, Through dangers little known ; A stranger to superior strength,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pàgines
...Poems have been omitted in their proper order. HUMAN FRAILTY. [1780.] WEAK and irresolute is man ; The purpose of to-day, Woven with pains into his plan,...already slain ; But passion rudely snaps the string, And it revives again. Some foe to his upright intent Finds out his weaker part ; Virtue engages his... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 396 pàgines
...hopeless, hear thee say — Farewell ! we meet no more ? HUMAN FRAILTY. WEAK and irresolute is man ; The purpose of to-day, Woven with pains into his plan,...already slain, But passion rudely snaps the string, And it revives again. Some foe to his upright intent Finds out his weaker part, Virtue engages his... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 406 pàgines
...And helpless, hopeless, hear thee say — Farewell ! we meet no more ? WEAK and irresolute is man ; The purpose of to-day, Woven with pains into his plan,...already slain; But Passion rudely snaps the string, And it revives again. Some foe to his upright intent Finds out his weaker part ; Virtue engages his... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1836 - 264 pàgines
...is man ; The purpose of to-day. Woven with pains into his plan, • > To-morrow rends away. , » 2 The bow well bent, and smart the spring, ' Vice seems already slain ; But passion rudely soaps the string, , . And it revives again. 3 Some foe to his upright intent,. ,. ' -• ,, ,^THE KNULiSri... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pàgines
...helpless, hopeless, hear thee sayFarewell ! we meet no more ! HUMAN FRAILTY. WEAK and irresolute is man ; The purpose of to-day, Woven with pains into his plan,...already slain ; But Passion rudely snaps the string, And it revives again. Some foe to his upright intent Finds out his weaker part ; Virtue engages his... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1837 - 998 pàgines
...barque wherein our little human stores of good resolutions are freighted. "\Vcak and irresolute Is man, The purpose of to-day, Woven with pains Into his plan. To-morrow rends away.'* " Hell !" says the immortal Jeremy Taylor, "is paved with good intentions." The essence of religion,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pàgines
...helpless, hopeless, hear thee gayFarewell ! we meet no more ? HUMAN FRAILTY. WEAE and irresolute is man ; The purpose of to-day, Woven with pains into his plan,...away. The bow well bent and smart the spring, Vice aeems already slain, But passion rudely snaps the string, And it revives again. Some foe to his upright... | |
 | Christian - 1840 - 318 pàgines
...Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light. HUMAN FRAILTY. Woven with pain into his plan, To-morrow rends away. The bow well...already slain : But Passion rudely snaps the string, And it revives again. Some foe to his upright intent Finds out his weaker part; Virtue engages his... | |
 | Christian - 1840 - 312 pàgines
...supernatural light. HUMAN FRAILTY. WEAK and irresolute is man ; The purpose of to-day, Woven with pain into his plan, To-morrow rends away. The bow well...already slain : But Passion rudely snaps the string, And it revives again. Some foe to his upright intent Finds out his weaker part ; Virtue engages his... | |
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WEAK and irresolute is man ; The purpose of to-day, Woven with pains into his plan, To-morrow rends away. The bow well bent, and smart the spring. Vice seems already slain ; But Passion rudely snaps the string, And it revives again. 
