 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1842 - 642 pages
...nobly to repay ? — O be my friend, and teach me to be thine! GRACE. How much, Preventing God ! how much I owe To the defences thou hast round me set:...Example, custom, fear, occasion slow, — These scorned bondmen were my parapet I dare not peep over this parapet To guage with glance the roaring gulf below,... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - Authors, American - 1852 - 366 pages
...way-worn, ' By burthens overborne.' \ NEW YORK. JOURNALS, LETTERS, 4o. "How much, preventing God, how much I owe To the defences thou hast round me set!...These scorned bondsmen were my parapet. I dare not peep over this parapet, To gauge with glance the roaring gulf below, The depths of sin to which I had... | |
 | Mary Ann Kelty - English essays - 1852 - 320 pages
...much," says the pious Herbert, " How much, preventing God, — how much I owe To the defences thon hast round me set ; Example, — custom, — fear,...These scorned bondsmen were my parapet ; I dare not peep over the parapet, To gauge with glance the roaring gulf below ; — The depths of sin to which... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1852 - 350 pages
...310 THE VOYAGE . 316 THE WRECK 321 NEW YOEK. JOURNALS, LETTERS, &c. " How much, preventing God, how much I owe To the defences thou hast round me set ! Example, Custom, Fear, Occasion slow, — Tbese scorned bondsmen were my parapet. I dare not peep over this parapet, To gauge with glance... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 248 pages
...velvet course of fortune, Hath missed the discipline of noble hearts. How much, preventing God ! how much I owe, To the defences thou hast round me set!...Occasion slow— These scorned bondsmen were my parapet! LORD HERIJERT. THE TASK OP A GOOD PASTOR. TIMOTHY DWIGHT. This too the task, the blest, the useful... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - Authors, American - 1869 - 362 pages
...By burthens overborne.' NEW YORK. JOURNALS, LETTERS, &o. "How much, preventing God, how much I ow* To the defences thou hast round me set ! Example,...These scorned bondsmen were my parapet. I dare not peep over this parapet, To gauge with glance the roaring gulf below, The depths of sin to which I had... | |
 | Dora Greenwell - 1875 - 250 pages
...wish into inexpiable shame, irretrievable wrong, and ruin. The will * " How much, preventing God, how much I owe To the defences Thou hast round me set...These scorned bondsmen were my parapet. I dare not overpcep this parapet, To gauge with glance the roaring gulf beyond, The depths of sin to which I had... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...whether formed for good or ill Are registered and answered still. GRACE. How much, preventing God, how much I owe To the defences thou hast round me set...Example, custom, fear, occasion slow, — These scorned bondmen were my parapet. I dare not peep over this parapet To gauge with glance the roaring gulf below,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 332 pages
...whether formed for good or ill Are registered and answered still. GRACE. How much, preventing God, how much I owe To the defences thou hast round me set...Example, custom, fear, occasion slow, — These scorned bondmen were my parapet. I dare not peep over this parapet To gauge with glance the roaring gulf below,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1883 - 344 pages
...whether formed for good or ill Are registered and answered still. GRACE. How much, preventing God, how much I owe To the defences thou hast round me set;...Example, custom, fear, occasion slow,— These scorned bondmen were my parapet. I dare not peep over this parapet To gauge with glance the roaring gulf below,... | |
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How much, preventing God, how much I owe To the defences thou hast round me set ; Example, custom, fear, occasion slow, — These scorned bondmen were my parapet. I dare not peep over this parapet To gauge with glance the roaring gulf below, The depths... 
