 Oh, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan ! No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustering ornaments to clog the pile, From ostentation as from weakness free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic...  The Works of William Cowper - Page 129by William Cowper - 1854Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1803 - 310 pages
...weakness, free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscrib'd above the portal, from afar Conspicuous as the brightness...star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul-quick'ning words BELIEVE, AND LIVE I Too many, shock'd at what should charm them most, Despise... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 478 pages
...clustering ornaments to clog the pile; From ostentation as from weakness free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscribed...soul-quickening words — BELIEVE AND LIVE. Too many, shocked at what should charm them most, Despise the plain direction and are lost. Heaven on such terms!... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 316 pages
...from weakness free, -i It stands like the cerulean arch we see, > ; Majestic in its own simplicity. J Inscribed above the portal, from afar Conspicuous...the soul-quickening words— BELIEVE AND LIVE. Too many.shocked at what should charm theftl most, Despise the plain dlre'dlon and arc lost. VOL. i. D... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 310 pages
...Majestic in its own simplicity. £»-• /'" fc " j" Inscribed above the portal, from afar y /w .i-^'v' Conspicuous as the brightness of a star, Legible only...by the light they give, Stand the soul-quickening words—BELIEVE AND LIVE. y Too many,shocked at what should charm them most, Despise the plain direction... | |
 | Charles Edward De Coetlogon - Christianity - 1807 - 588 pages
...free, « It stands, like the caerulean Arch we see, * Majestic in its own Simplicity. «« Inscrib'd above the portal, from afar " Conspicuous as the brightness...Legible only by the light they give — « Stand the soul-quick'ning words— BELlSVE,and LIVE.*" THE great Theme, upon which our intellectual powers are... | |
 | Charles Edward De Coetlogon - Christianity - 1807 - 586 pages
...weakness, free, " It stands, like the caerulean Arch we see, " Majestic in its own Simplicity. " Inscrib'd above the portal, from afar " Conspicuous as the brightness of a Star— u Legible only by the light they give — " Stand the soul-quick'ningwords~BELiKVE,and LITE.*" IHE... | |
 | William Cowper - 1808 - 330 pages
...from weakness free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscrib'd above the portal, from afar Conspicuous as the brightness...a star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand thesoul-quickening words — BELIEVE AND LITE 1 Too many, shock'd at what should charm them most, Despise... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1808 - 360 pages
...as the brightness of a star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul-quick'ningwords — BELIEVE AND LIVE. Too many, shock'd at what should...them most, Despise the plain direction, and are lost. Heav'n on such terms ! (they cry with proud disdain) Incredible, impossible, and vain !— * Rebel,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 390 pages
...weakness free, "\ It stands like the cerulean arch we see, > Majestic in if s own simplicity. J Inscrib'd above the portal, from afar Conspicuous as the brightness...star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul-quick'ning words — BELIEVE AND LIVE. Too many, shock'd at what should charm them most, Despise... | |
 | 1809 - 420 pages
...weakness free, It stands like the cxrulean arch we see, Majt st ic in its own simplicity. Inscrib'd above the portal, from afar Conspicuous as the brightness...star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul-quick'ning words, "BELIEVE AND LIVE." IT appears strange to us, that we should be so often accused... | |
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