| William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pągines
...of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unineumbered plan ! No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustermg ornaments to' clog the pile; From ostentation as from weakness free, It stands like the cerulean areh we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inseribed above the portal, from afar Conspicuous as the... | |
| 1851 - 636 pągines
...of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencnmber'd plan ! No meretricious graces to beguile, No clust'ring ornaments to clog the pile ; • From ostentation, as from weakness, free, It stands, like the cternlean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscrib'd above the portal, from afar Conspicuous... | |
| John Nash Griffin - 1852 - 336 pągines
...shalt be saved." " O, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan : No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustering ornaments...by the light they give, Stand the soul-quickening words—Beliene and line. Too many, shocked at what should charm them most, Despise the plain direction,... | |
| William Cowper - 1852 - 466 pągines
...man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumher'd plan • No meretricious graces to heguile, No clust'ring ornaments to clog the pile; From ostentation as from...cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscrih'd ahove the portal, from afar Conspicuous as the hrightness of a star, Legihle only hy the... | |
| Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 pągines
...of man, Heav'n's easy, artless, unincumber'd plan! No meretricious graces to beguile, No clust'ring ornaments to clog the pile; From ostentation as from...cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Simplicity of character and of style,... | |
| Christians - 1856 - 408 pągines
...in 1781 : — " Oh, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan ! No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustering ornaments...we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscribed upon the portal from afar, Conspicuous as the brightness of a star, Legible only by the light they... | |
| Colburn Mayne - 1856 - 326 pągines
...poet's words — ' Oh, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan, No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustering ornaments...cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity,' Poor Cowper ! — how little the Calvinist knew the truth of what the poet could so well describe.... | |
| 1856 - 790 pągines
...ornaments 10 clog the pile ; From ostentation, as from weakness, lice, it stands, like the cerulean area we see. Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscribed...star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul quickening words, Relieve and live. HOW MANY HOUES SLEEP DO \- K RhQUlKE ? NATURE requires five,... | |
| William Cowper - 1856 - 512 pągines
...of man. Heaven's easy, a'rtless, unencumber'd plan! No meretricious graces to beguile, No clust'ring ornaments to clog the pile; From ostentation as from...cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscrib'd above the portal, from afar Conspicuous, as the brightness of a star, Legible only by the... | |
| Harvey Buckland - 1856 - 208 pągines
...easy, artless, unencumber'd plan ! No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustering ornaments to cloy the pile; From ostentation as from weakness free,...Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscribed above the portals from afar, Conspicuous as the brightness of a star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand... | |
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