 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...own^; 4. Large was his bounty', and his soul sincere^; Heaven did a recompense as largely send\ He gave to misery all he had' — a tear^; He gained from Heaven', ( 't was all he wished', ) a friend^ 5. No further seek his merits to disclose', Or draw his frailties from their last abode', (There, they,... | |
 | Edward Quillinan - English poetry - 1853 - 326 pages
...marred than improved it, yet the last stanza suggests a good rule for biographies of students : — "No farther seek his merits to disclose ; Nor draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God." Whatever may be... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1853 - 748 pages
...hear his dying deprecation and request in the closing verse of the elegy he called for : " Nor further seek his merits to disclose, Nor draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God." My brethren, I may... | |
 | New York (N.Y.). Common Council - Cabinet officers - 1853 - 280 pages
...is now in his home-made grave— " at rest with kings and counsellors of the earth." " Nor further seek his merits to disclose, Nor draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God." DISCOURSE BY THE... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send ; He gave to Misery all he had, a tear, He gained from Heaven ('t was all he wished) a friend. No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode. (There they alike... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...largely send ; He gave to misery, all he had, a tear ; He gain'd from heaven, 'twas all he wish'da friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Nor draw his frailties from their dread abode, There they alike in trembling hope repose, The bosom of his father and his God. OB AY. • i ODE ON... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - Authors, English - 1854 - 652 pages
...him intimately loved him to the last. Great is the sentiment, so hackneyed that we prize it not — " No farther seek his merits to disclose, Nor draw his frailties from their dread abode, — " and greater, because it was penned by one who, less than most men, required the indulgence which... | |
 | F. Williams - 1855 - 346 pages
...rest—the man of many failings and of many griefs, of some virtues, and deep repentance. "No longer seek his merits to disclose, Nor draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God !" CHAPTEK V. " "We... | |
 | Cornelius Van Santvoord - American essays - 1856 - 474 pages
...adopt in ours, the sweet and impressive words of the noblest elegy iii our language — " No further seek his merits to disclose, Nor draw his frailties from their dread abode ; (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his Father and his God." In the view of... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...a recompense as largely send : He gave to misery all he had, a tear ; He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom... | |
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... the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown; Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery (all... 
