 | Literature - 1825 - 492 pages
...Dost scare the world with tempests, setl'st on fire The heavens with falling thunderholts, or fill'st With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark...tokens of thy power. His pride, and lays his strifes and follies hy • Oh, from these sterner aspects of thy face Spare me and mine, nor let us need the... | |
 | 1825 - 574 pages
...Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling tbunderbolts, or fill'st With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark...uproots the woods And drowns the villages ; when, at tby call, Uprises the great deep and throws himself Upon the continent and overwhelms Its cities —... | |
 | 1826 - 524 pages
...Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill'st With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark...tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays his strifes and follies by ? Oh, from these sterner aspects of thy face Spare me and mine, nor let us need the... | |
 | American poetry - 1826 - 192 pages
...Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill'st With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark...tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays his strifes and follies by ? Oh, from these sterner aspects of thy face Spare me and mine, nor let us need the... | |
 | American poetry - 1826 - 192 pages
...Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill'st With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark...throws himself Upon the continent and overwhelms Its cities—who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...passions, at thy plainer footsteps, shrink, And tremble, and are still. 0 God! when thoo Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with...tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays his strifes and follies by ? O, from these sterner aspects of thy face Spare me and mine; nor let us need the wrath... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...passions, at thy plainer footsteps, shrink, And tremble, and are still. 0 God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with...tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays his strifes and follies by ? 0, from these sterner aspects of thy face Spare me and mine f- nor let us need the... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1831 - 442 pages
...Dost scare the world with tempests, sett'st on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill'st With all the waters of the firmament The swift dark...tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays his strifes and follies by? Oh, from these sterner aspects of thy face, Spare me and mine, nor let us need the... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...passions, at thy plainer footsteps shrink And tremble and are still. Oh, God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with...tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays his strifes and follies by? Oh, from these sterner aspects of thy face Spare me and mine, nor let us need the wrath... | |
 | 1837 - 830 pages
...boldness, and simplicity of expression, are main features in the poem. Oh God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with...whirlwind that uproots the woods, And drowns the villages. Here an ordinary writer would have preferred the word fright to scare, and omitted the definite article... | |
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God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift dark whirlwind that uproots... 
