 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 evry low pursuit and feed my soul With knowledge conscious peace and virtue pure Sacred substantial never fading bliss...  Addresses - Page 95by Jesse Appleton - 1820 - 176 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1757 - 244 pages
...paft, And broken flumbers, rifes ftill refolv'd, 215 With new-flufh'd hopes, to run the giddy round. FATHER, of light and life ! thou GOOD SUPREME ! O teach me what is good ! teach me THYSELF ! Save me frjm folly, vanity, and vice, From every low purfuit ! and feed my foul 320 With knowledge, confcious... | |
 | James Thomson - 1774 - 272 pages
...215 With. new-flufh'd hopes, to run the giddy round. FATH.ER of light and life! thou Goon SUPREME 1 O teach me what is good ! teach me THYSELF! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From ev'ry low purfuit! and feed my foul. 220 * THE keener tempefts rife : and fuming dun From all the livid... | |
 | Ann Murry - Conduct of life - 1778 - 246 pages
...following claffes. Thofe addreffed to the Deity—of which I fhall produce an. example from Thompfon. " Father of Light and Life, thou good Supreme, " O teach me what is good, teach me Thyfelf!" The next are thofe prefented to Apollo, the Mufes r or any Virtue, and are ufed by Poets... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...EXTRACTS. -POETICAL. BOOK THE FIRST. SACRED AND MORAL. { i. An Addrefi totheDeiiy. THOMSON. FATH ER of light and life ! Thou GOOD SUPREME ! O teach me...THYSELF ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice ; From cv'ry low purfuit ! and feed my foul Withknowledge.confcious peace, and virtue purej Sacred, fubftantial,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...ELEGANT EXTRACTS, IN VERSE. BOOK THE FIRST. SACRED AND MORAL. | i. At Mdreft to I be Dtitf. THOMSON. FATHER of light and life ! Thou GOOD SUPREME ! O teach me what a good. Teach me T HYS EL F Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low purfuit ! and feed... | |
 | Missions - 1802 - 596 pages
...'tis God alone ean set me right, And turn my darkness into light, And lead me to the skiei I PRAYF.lt. FATHER of light and life ! thou " Good Supreme ! O teach me what it good ! teach me "Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From ev'ry low pursuit I and feed... | |
 | John Bew - 1794 - 358 pages
...fatijfaftion of his admirers, in the year of our Lord 1791." Underneath, is this quotation from his " Winter : Father of Light and Life, Thou Good Supreme ! O, teach me what is good ! teach m« Thyfelf ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, , From every low purfu'r ! and feed my foul ' With... | |
 | T. Bowen - 1799 - 76 pages
...roar; When thy proud waves with indignation rife, And dafti thy foamy fury to the tkies. CHAPTER XI. FATHER of light and life ! thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good! teach me Th)fclf! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low purfuit ! and feed my foul With knowledge,... | |
 | James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...visions past, And broken slumbers, rises still resolv'd, With new flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and life! thou good supreme! O teach...thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, • From ev'ry low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, consciousjieace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 268 pages
...past , And broken slum hers , rises still resolv'd , With new-flush 'd hopes , to run the giddy round Father of light and life ! thou GOOD SUPREME! O teach me what is good ! teach me THYSEU! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge... | |
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