 Religion! what treasure untold Resides in that heavenly word! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford. But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard, Ne'er sighed at the sound of a knell Or smiled...  Annals of the American Pulpit: Methodist. [1860 - Side 180af William Buell Sprague - 1859Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 sider
...charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Ibid. But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard, Ne'er sighed at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a Sabbath appeared. Ibid. How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1885 - 728 sider
...realizing the often quoted verse of Gowper : — " The sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard, Ne'er sighed at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a Sabbath appeared." Such a Sabbath picture is given by Thomas Pringle, in his " African... | |
 | 1891 - 828 sider
...to Cowper's lines : But the sound of a church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard ; Never sighed at the sound of a knell Nor smiled when a Sabbath appeared. But it shows how relative all principles of style are, that to thousands of good evangelicals, such... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1891 - 426 sider
...silver or gold, Or all that the earth can afford. ' But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard, Ne'er sighed at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a Sabbath appeared.' The entire ideas connected with the poem are pensive, yet not sad,... | |
 | William Minto - 1893 - 112 sider
...Cowper's lines — " But the sound of a church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard ; Never sighed at the sound of a knell, Nor smiled when a Sabbath appeared." But it shows how relative all principles of style are, that to thousands of good evangelicals, such... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1893 - 394 sider
...silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford. But the sound of the church-going be These valleys and rocks never heard, Ne'er sighed at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a sabbath appeared. "Ye winds, that have made me your sport Convey to this desolate... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 250 sider
...silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford. But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard, Ne'er sighed at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a sabbath appeared. Ye winds, that have made me your sport. Convey to this desolate... | |
 | Clement Luther Martzolff - 1902 - 278 sider
...went out to the natives "The sound of the church-going bell, The valleys and rocks never heard, Never sighed at the sound of a knell, Nor smiled when a Sabbath appeared." The second was the discoveries of LaSalle. Robert LaSalle. an ambitious young Frenchman, determined to... | |
 | Joseph Bickersteth Mayor - 1903 - 188 sider
...best in the poem But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard, Never sighed at the sound of a knell, Nor smiled when a sabbath appeared are omitted in the Golden Treasury, probably from Wordsworth's prosaic objection to the propriety of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1905 - 292 sider
...silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford. But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard, Ne'er sighed at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a sabbath appeared. Ye winds, that have made me your sport Convey to this desolate shore... | |
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