| English poetry - 1788 - 510 pages
...wits to fail, and tongue to fold. Vouchsafe then, O thou most Almighty Spright ! From whom all gifts of wit and knowledge flow, To shed into my breast some sparkling light 10 Of thine eternal truth, that I may show Some little beames to mortal eyes below Of that immortal... | |
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1805 - 594 pages
...To fhed into my breaft fome fparkling light 10 Of Thine eternall truth, that I may fhow Some little beames to mortall eyes below Of that immortall Beautie, there with Thee, Which in my weake diftraughted mynd I fee ; Ver. 1 . Rapt &c.] So he exclaims, in he Fatr. Queene ; " I, nigh ravifht... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 610 pages
...to faile, and tongue to fold. Vouchsafe then, О thou most Almightie Spright ! From whom all guifis of wit and knowledge flow, To shed into my breast some sparkling light Of thine eternal! truth, that I may show Some little béâmes to mortal! eyes below Of that immortal! Beautie,... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 420 pages
...But feele my wits to faile, and tongue to fold. Vouehsafe then, O thou most Almightie Spright ! Prom whom all guifts of wit and knowledge flow, To shed...light Of thine eternall truth, that I may show Some little hea,nes to mortall eyes below Of that immortall Beautie, there with thee, Whieh in my weake... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 pages
...that I behold, But feele my wits to faile, and tongue to fold. Vouchsafe then, O Thou most Almightie Spright! From whom all guifts of wit and knowledge flow, To shed into thy breast some sparkling light Of Thine eternall truth, that I may show Some little beames to mortall... | |
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1825 - 450 pages
...that I behold, Bat feele my wits to faile, and tongue to fold. Vouchsafe then, O Thou most Almightie Spright ! From whom all guifts of wit and knowledge...flow, To shed into my breast some sparkling light 10 Of Thine eternall truth, that I may show Some little beames to mortall eyes below Of that immortall... | |
| Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - Christianity - 1835 - 402 pages
...wits to faile, and tongue to fold. Vouchsafe then, O thou most Almightie Spright ! From whom all gifts of wit and knowledge flow, To shed into my breast...light Of thine eternall truth, that I may show Some little beames to mortall eyes below Of that immortall Beautie, there with thee, Which in my weake distraughted... | |
| Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 400 pages
...wits to faile, and tongue to fold. Vouchsafe then, O thou most Almightie Spright ! From whom all gifts of wit and knowledge flow, To shed into my breast...light Of thine eternall truth, that I may show Some little beames to mortall eyes below Of that immortall Beautie, there with thee, Which in my weake distraughted... | |
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1839 - 334 pages
...that I behold, But feele my wits to faile, and tongue to fold. Vouchsafe then, O Thou most Almightie Spright ! From whom all guifts of wit and knowledge...light Of Thine eternall Truth, that I may show Some little beames to mortall eyes below Of that immortall Beautie, there with Thee, Which in my weake distraughted... | |
| 1839 - 498 pages
...are above all praise : — " Vouchsafe, then, О thou most Almightie Spright ! From whom all gifts of wit and knowledge flow, To shed into my breast...light Of thine eternall truth, that I may show Some little bcames to mortall eyes below Of that immortal! bcautie there with thee, Which in my weake, dlstraughted... | |
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