 | 1856 - 568 pages
...another poet, Samuel Rogers. " The ttetreate. " Happy those early dayes when I Shined in my angell- infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, celestial! thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1852 - 478 pages
...sweet unconscious child has sometimes made a hardened criminai weep, to think what he himself once was. Happy those early days when I Shined in my angel infancy, Before I understood this place Appointed for my trial race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought ; When yet I had not walked... | |
 | Henry Vaughan - 1856 - 330 pages
...gladly dye." THE RETREATE. 1 HAPPY those early dayes, when I I Shin'd in my angell-infancy ! |_Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, celestiall thought ; When yet I had not walkt above A mile or two from my first... | |
 | 1896 - 858 pages
...wrote in Tlie Betreute: " Before I taught my tongue to wound My Conscience with a sinful sound, * * * * Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, Celestial thought." All the duty of the child is comprised (and is by him fully understood) in the command to be good.... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 522 pages
...poem of the " Betreate," beginning — " Happy those early dayes when I Shined in my angell-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white celestiall thought." The older poem gives expression to the sad yearnings of our... | |
 | Samuel Osgood - 1855 - 324 pages
...benediction and their appeal. XVII. tat Happy those early days, when I Shin'd in my angel-infancy! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race ; Or taught my soul to funcy augiit But a white celestial thought ; When yet I Imd not walked above A mile or two from my... | |
 | 1856 - 598 pages
...poet, Samuel Rogers. " The Retreate. " Happy those early dayes when I Shined in my angell-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, celestial! thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1859 - 312 pages
...immortality received in childhood," entitled, " The Retreat:" •' Happy those early days, when I Shin'd in my angel infancy ! Before I understood this place,...But a white, celestial thought ; When yet I had not walkt above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back, at that short space, Could see a glimpse... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 546 pages
...poem of the " Retreate," beginning— " Happy those early dayes when I Shined in my angell-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white celestiall thought." The older poem gives expression to the sad yearnings of our... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 576 pages
...poem of the "Retreate," beginning — " Happy those early dayes when I Shined in my angell-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white celestiall thought." The older poem gives expression to the sad yearnings of our... | |
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Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought ; When yet I had not walk'd above A mile or two from my first Love, And looking back, at that short space Could see a glimpse... 
