 | William Cowper - 1800 - 438 pàgines
...that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who, in his sov'reign wisdom, made them all. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To...The spring-time of our years Is soon dishonour'd and defil'd in most By budding ills, that ask a prudent hand To check them. But, alas! none sooner shoots,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1802 - 350 pàgines
...that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who, in his sov'reign wisdom, made them all. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To...The spring-time of our years Is soon dishonour'd and defil'd in most By budding ills, that ask a prudent hand To check them. But, alas ! none sooner shoots,... | |
 | 1802 - 302 pàgines
...life, ' 585 As God was free to form them at the first, Who, in his sovereign wisdom, made them all. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To...The spring-time of our years Is soon dishonour'd and defil'd in most 590 By budding Uls, that ask a prudent hand To check them. But alas none sooner shoots... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 234 pàgines
...enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all. Ye therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The spring time of our years Is soon dishonoured and defiled in most By budding ills, that ask a prudent... | |
 | William Cowper - 1808 - 338 pàgines
...sons, To love it too. The springtime of our years Is soon dishonour'd and defil'd in most By hudding ills, that ask a prudent hand, To check them. But alas ! none soqner shoots, If unrestrain'd, into luxuriant growth, Than cruelty, most dev'lish of them all. Mercy... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pàgines
...wisdom, made them all. Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons Is soon dishononr'd and defil'd, in most By budding ills, that ask a prudent hand To check them. But, alas ! none sooner shoots If unrestrain'd, into luxuriant growth, Than cruelty, most dev'lish of them all. Mercy to him that shows... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 212 pàgines
...that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who, in his sovereign wisdom, made them all. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The spring-time of our years Is soon dishonor'd and defil'd in most By budding ills, that ask a prudent hand To check them. But, alas! none... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pàgines
...your sons, To love it too. The spring-time of our years Is soon dishonour'd and defil'd in most 390 By budding ills, that ask a prudent hand, To check them. But alas! none sooner shoots, If unrestrain'd, into luxuriant growth, Than cruelty, most dev'lish of them all. Mercy to him, that shows... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 384 pàgines
...the first, Who in his sov'reign wisdom made them all. Ye therefore, who love mercy, teach your sous To love it too. The springtime of our years Is soon dishonour'd and defil'd in most By budding ills, that ask a prudent hand To check them. But alas ! none sooner shoots,... | |
 | Mr. Pratt (Samuel Jackson) - 1810 - 172 pàgines
...better than by adding the appeals of the very MUSE of LOVING-KINDNESS and MERCY, the tender COWPER. " Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too ! The spring time of our years Too soon dishononr'd and defil'd, in most, By budding ills, that ask a prudent... | |
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If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all, the meanest things that are, As free to live and to enjoy that life As God was free to form them at the first, Who... 
