 It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born Child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies ; Nature in awe to Him Had doffed her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize : It was no season then for her To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour.  The Central literary magazine - Página 34por Birmingham central literary assoc - 1883Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 páginas
...secret altar touch'd with hallow'd fire. THE HYMN. I. IT was the winter wild, While the heav'n-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies ; Nature in awe to him Had dofft her gaudy trim, S3 star-led] ' The starre-led sages that would Christ behold.' Bancroft's Sec.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 páginas
...event With peace and consolation hath dismist. And calm of mind, all passion spent. CHRISTMAS HYMN. Man shall find grace ; And shall grace not find means,...way, The speediest of thy winged messengers, To vi doff'd her gaudy trim, Wilh her great Master so to sympathize : It was no season then for her To wanton... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 páginas
...gathered aught of evil, or concealed, Disperse it, as now li^ht dispels the dark! HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. IT was the winter wild, While the heaven-born child...in the rude manger lies: Nature in awe to Him Had doffed her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize: It was no season then for her To wanton... | |
 | Philip Harwood - 1841 - 232 páginas
...one age that it is in another age. Its nativity is commonly cast in poverty, neglect and storm, as ' It was the winter wild While the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lay.' It is born in an evil time; perhaps under some Herod of a king, in some Judea of priests, bigots... | |
 | John Keble - 1842 - 332 páginas
...improve this circumstance. So in that glorious hymn of Milton, on the morning of Christ's nativity,— " It was the winter wild, While the heaven-born child...wrapt in the rude manger lies, Nature in awe to him Has doffed her gaudy trim, It was no season then for her To wanton with the Sun, her lusty paramour."... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 páginas
...join thy voice unto the angel-quire, From out his secret altar touch'd with hallow'd fire. THE HYMN. IT was the winter wild, While the heaven-born child...the rude manger lies ; Nature, in awe to him, Had doff'd her gaudy trim, Only with speeches fair She woos the gentle air To hide her guilty front with... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 páginas
...be, Forsook the courts of everlasting day, And chose with us a darksome house of mortal clavTHE HYMN. IT was the winter wild, While the heaven-born child...the rude manger lies ; Nature, in awe to him, Had doffd her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize. No war, or battle's sound, Was heard... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...p. 311. s Hazlitt. "Lectures, &c.," p. 120. 3 Cowper. " Letters." HYMN ON THE NATIVITY.1 ABRIDGED. IT was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child...the rude manger lies ; Nature, in awe to him, Had dofft her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathise : It was no season then for her To wanton... | |
 | 1847 - 602 páginas
...language. No uninspired composition, perhaps, ever surpassed the hymn on the" Nativity, beginning with, ' It was the winter wild, While the heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.' The lines ' at a solemn music/ and the choruses of Samson Agonistes, are distinguished at once by the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...and impressive. The Christian poet triumphs and predominates at the close. [Hymn on the Nativity.] u ! ! ! Ilnil dofFd her gaudy trim, With her groat Master so to sympathise : It was no season then for her... | |
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