| Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 pages
...blood. O blindness to the future ! kindly gi v'n, 85 That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n ; Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fell, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd And now a bubble burst, and now a world. 90 Hope humbly then... | |
| George Miller - 1833 - 428 pages
...great things with small, to attempt by that means, to set limits to the power of the ALMIGHTY, — " Who sees, with equal eye, as God of all, A HERO perish,— or a SPARROW fall."— WHO, can feel it no more a disparagement to his character, as LORD OF ALL, to give, on one occasion,... | |
| Zachariah Allen - 1833 - 440 pages
...POMP OF FUNERAL PROCESSIONS. retire with greater contentment, as being under the care of Heaven, " Who sees with equal eye, as -God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall." No one can visit Westminster Abbey without feeling for a time new incitement to virtue, and without... | |
| Isaac Watts, Joseph Emerson - 1833 - 246 pages
...poet fails not to represent it in all its grandeur. So when the supremacy of a God is described, He sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fail ; Atoms or systems, into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. — Pope. This... | |
| Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 pages
...blood. 2. Oh, blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle marked by heaven ; Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall ; Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. 3. Hope humbly then ;... | |
| United States. Congress - 1853 - 1006 pages
...widely around him in the performance of his legislative duty ; to resemble Him, according to the poet, " Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, " A hero perish or a sparrow fall." He alluded again to the distress in Philadelphia and elsewhere; spokeof ihecnormousand usurious interest... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...blood. O, blindness to the future ! kindly given, 85 That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven ; Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall ; Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd ; And now a bubble burst, and now a world. 90 Hope humbly then... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...hlood. Oh hlindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd hy Heaven , \Vho sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a huhhle hurst, and now a world. 90 Hope humhly then; with... | |
| William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...of key. Oh, blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle marked by Heaven ; Who sees, with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall; Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd ; And now a bubble burst, and now a world. Mountains above, earth's,... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 pages
...blood. Oh blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven : Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. Hope humbly then ; with... | |
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