 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 190 pages
...learn'd the fond pursuit to shun Where few can reach the purpos'd aim, And thousands daily are undone. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours; And ask them, what report they bore to Heav'n. All nature is but art unknown to thee ; All chance, direction which thou canst not see ; All... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 184 pages
...learn'd the fond pursuit to shun Wh«je few can reach the purpos'd aim, Ami thousands daiiy.are undone. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours; And. ask them, what report they bore to Heav'n. All nature is but art unknown to thee ; All chance, direction which thou canst not see; All... | |
 | Hannah More - 1827 - 542 pages
...space which divides us from eternity : 'Tis irrrativ wise to talk with our past hours. And ask thorn what report they bore to heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news. Yet to those who seek a short annual retreat ач amere form; who dignify with the idea of a religious... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 128 pages
...learn'd the fond pursuit to shun, Where few can reach their purpos'd aim, And thousands daily are undone. *Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them what report they bore to Heav'n. All nature is but art, unknown to thee ; All chance, direction which thou canst not see ; All... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...time, and did it not. If you give account for every idle word, much more for every idle hour. Baxter. 'tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heav'n ; And how they might have borne more welcome news. YOUNG. However it may prove an hard saying... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 268 pages
...learu'd the fond pursuit to shun, Where few can reach the purpos'd aim, And thousands daily are undone. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to Heav'n. All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All... | |
 | 1829 - 894 pages
...FOR THE NEW YEAR. IT has been said, by one of the most original and sublime of the English poets, " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to Heaven." One of the purposes for which the faculty of memory was given us, is, to enable us to recaí the events... | |
 | Cornelius Roosevelt Duffie - 1829 - 444 pages
...has been the tendency of our conduct, and the tenor of our desires. It is a fit moment for us all " To talk with our past hours, " And ask them what report they bare to heaven." . The young, who, trusting in their strength and vigour, looking forward in imagination... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...At ouce he draws the sting of life and death : He walks with nature, and her paths are peace. 'Tie ; If wisdom's friend her best, if not, worst foe. The Man whose Thoughts are not of this World* Some... | |
 | Hannah More - 1830 - 494 pages
...concerns of life; and at times to annihilate, as it were, the space which divides us from eternity : Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And...heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news. Yet as to those who seek a short annual retreat as a mere form ; who dignify with the idea of a religious... | |
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Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news. 
