 | Percival Stockdale - Authors - 1809 - 498 pages
...and liberal knowledge ; of all elegant, and polite learning. » DISCOURSE, PSALM XXXIX. V. 15. Oh ! spare me a little, that I may recover my strength ; before I go hence , and be no more seen. " PROCRASTINATION," says one of the greatest of poets, " is the thief of time." There is an activity... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 382 pages
...liv'd " To die when I desire," Mtdone. Melt, and no more be seen,] So, in the 39th Pialm: — " 0. spare me a little, that I may recover my strength, before I go hence, and be no mere seen." Steevens. 2 — — 0 come, be buried A second time within these arms.] So, in The Winter's... | |
 | Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...not thy peace at my tears. For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner ; as all my fathers were. O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength ; before I go hence, and be no more seen. Lord, thou hast been our refuge, from one generation to another. Before the mountains were brought... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1810 - 510 pages
...now, LORD, what is my Hope ? Truly my Hope is even in Thee. Deliver me from all mine Offences, and O spare me a little that I may recover my Strength, before 1 go hence and be no more seen. Such Thoughts as these of our Friend's, and of our own Mortality, would... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1812 - 586 pages
...peace at my tears. . 22. For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 23. O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength, before I go hence, and be no more seen. Psalm xxxix. 11, 13. A Prayer for a Sick Seaman. O MOST great and glorious Lord, the " salvation of... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1813 - 480 pages
...consumed by means of thy heavy hand. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my Fathers were* O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength before I go hence and be no more seen. (Psal. xxxix. 5, 11, 7, 12, 10, 12, 13.), My soul cleaveth unto the dust : O quicken me according to... | |
 | Mrs. Sarah Kirby Trimmer, 1741-1810 - 1814 - 370 pages
...pleasure, that thou wouldst bless the means I am making use of for my recovery ; that thou wouldst spare me a little, that I may recover my strength before I go hence, and be no more seen. O take me not away in the midst of my age ; forsake me not, O God, when my strength faileth me. O may... | |
 | Women authors, English - 1814 - 386 pages
...do the work I have prescribed for myself. Lord, if I am but able I will pursue it with alacrity ; O that I may recover my strength before I go hence, and be no more seen ! not for the trifling purposes of life do I wish to continue longer in this stage of existence ; I... | |
 | Church of England - Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 450 pages
...not thy peace at my tears. For I am a stranger with thee : and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength : before I go hence, and be no more seen. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son : and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - Theology - 1816 - 588 pages
...purposes are for ever blasted with the next violent temptation. More prudent was the prayer of David, Ok spare me a little, that I may recover my strength before I go hence and be no more seen. And something like it, was the saying of the Emperour Charles the fifth, Inter vitae negotia et mortis... | |
| |
O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength : before I go hence, and be no more seen. 
