 If so much excellence abide below, How excellent is He that dwells on high! Whose power and beauty by his works we know. Sure He is goodness, wisdom, glory, light, That hath this under world so richly dight: More heaven than earth was here, no winter...  The Western Quarterly Review - Seite 1941849Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Henry Chester Tracy - 1928 - 342 Seiten
...comes a groping that ends, inevitably (for that time) in a moral: I wist not what to wish, yet sftre, thought I, If so much excellence abide below, How excellent is He that dwells on high. . . . and so on to the end of the lyric. "I wist not what to wish," is real. The rest is echo. The... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch - 1974 - 280 Seiten
...that, for a moment, she knows 'not what to wish', but she quickly recovers and makes the observation 'If so much excellence abide below ; | How excellent is he that dwells on high?' This is the standard Puritan reflex. The natural world, being God's, suggests God. This connection... | |
 | Jane Donahue Eberwein - 1978 - 398 Seiten
...red, of yellow, mixed hue; Rapt were my senses at this delectable view. 1. Apollo, the sun god. 2 I wist not what to wish, yet sure thought I, If so much...abide below, How excellent is He that dwells on high, 10 Whose power and beauty by his works we know? Sure he is goodness, wisdom, glory, light, That hath... | |
 | Alan Heimert, Andrew Delbanco - 1985 - 462 Seiten
...but was true Of green, of red, of yellow, mixed hew, Rapt were my sences at this delectable view. 2 I wist not what to wish, yet sure thought I, If so much...beauty by his works we know. Sure he is goodness, wisdome, glory, light, That hath this under world so richly dight: More Heaven then Earth was here... | |
 | Harrison T. Meserole - 2010 - 577 Seiten
...but was true Of green, of red, of yellow, mixed hew, Rapt were my sences at this delectable view. I wist not what to wish, yet sure thought I, If so much...beauty by his works we know. Sure he is goodness, wisdome, glory, light, That hath this under world so richly dight: 3 Then on a stately Oak I cast mine... | |
 | Tommaso Pisanti - 1986 - 266 Seiten
...but was true Of green, of red, of yellow, mixed hew, Rapt were my sences at this delectable view. I wist not what to wish, yet sure thought I, If so much...beauty by his works we know. Sure he is goodness, wisdome, glory, light, That hath this under world so richly dight: More Heaven then Earth was here,... | |
 | Lewis Turco - 1986 - 198 Seiten
...'painted' but are really 'true,' she finds her senses 'rapt' and hardly knows what she ought to feel, I wist not what to wish, yet sure, thought I, If so...high, Whose power and beauty by his works we know. (American Poets, p. 8) "If this foreshadows Bryant," Waggoner goes on, perhaps with a sense of disappointment... | |
 | Rob Wilson - 1991 - 358 Seiten
...connecting such attributes of earthly "power and beauty" with more properly supernatural sources: I wist not what to wish, yet sure thought I, If so much...light, That hath this under world so richly dight; . . . (205) As in the neo-Platonism of Longinus, then, Bradstreet can celebrate "power and beauty"... | |
 | Bruce Wilkinson, Walk Thru the Bible - 1992 - 436 Seiten
...so much excellence ahides helow. How excellent is He that dwells on high. Whose power and heauty hy His works we know? Sure He is goodness, wisdom, glory,...light, That hath this under world so richly dight'. . . . My great Creator I would magnify. That nature had thus decked liherally: But ah. and ah, again,... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 Seiten
...but was true Of green, of red, of yellow, mixed hew, Rapt were my fences at this delectable view. I wist not what to wish, yet sure thought I, If so much...glory, light, That hath this under world so richly dight:1 More Heaven then Earth was here no winter & no night. Then on a stately Oak I cast mine Eye,... | |
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