For so thy Visible grew mine, Though half its power I could not know; And in me wrought a work divine, Which Thou hadst ordered so; Filling my brain with form and word From thy full utterance unto men; Shapes that might ancient Truth afford, And find it words again.

His gracious edict the same franchise yields To all the wild increase of woods and fields, And who in rocks aloof, and who in steeples builds: 1250 To Crows the like impartial grace affords, And Choughs and Daws, and such republic birds: Secured with ample privilege to feed, Each has his district, and his bounds decreed; Combined in common interest with his own, But not to pass the Pigeon's Rubicon.

Great Fletcher never treads in buskins here, Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear; 80 But gentle Simkin just reception finds Amidst this monument of vanish'd minds: Pure clinches the suburban muse affords, And Panton waging harmless war with words.

Just, so among ourselves, wives who are neither esteemed nor loved by their husbands, have great power over their conduct by the friction of every day, and over the formation of their opinions by the daily opportunities so close a relation affords, of perverting testimony and instilling doubts.

Present as small a target as possible to the enemy by utilizing every bit of cover the ground affords.

First, Ver, the Spring, unto whose custody I have committed more than to the rest; The choice of all my fragrant meads and flowers, And what delights soe'er nature affords.

His mother, who could no longer refuse an answer, determined, at least, to give such, as should deprive him for ever of that happiness which competency affords, and declared him dead; which is, perhaps, the first instance of a falshood invented by a mother, to deprive her son of a provision which was designed him by another.

If too small a quantity of coloring matter be used at first, it will be difficult to form a just conception of the general state of the surface, as the prominent points will alone be indicated, whereas the use of a large quantity of coloring matter in the latter stages would destroy the delicacy of the test the face plate affords.

The Gordian knot, which Alexander great Did whilom, cut with his all-conquering sword, Was nothing like thy busk-point, pretty peat, Nor could so fair an augury afford.

When one enters a race-horse in a contest he puts the animal in good condition, he grooms it, he feeds it the best the stable affords, he trains and exercises it carefully.

Piso, his coming to your house at Baiae To bathe and banquet will fit meanes afford, Amidst his cups, to end his hated life: Let him die drunke that nere liv'd soberly.

Next to these my choice would fix me at some woody spot, such as the neighbourhood of Henley affords in abundance, upon the banks of my beloved Thames.

God hold them, Salisbury, for it's often seen, A reconciled foe small good affords.

One of these modes would be the deposition of dew, which is itself an illustration of the principle that vapour requires solid or liquid surfaces to condense upon; dew forms most readily and abundantly on grass, on account of the numerous centres of condensation this affords.

On the other hand, touching stops at the surface, while grasping affords only imperfect, mediate knowledge.

And, while thy grounds a cheap repast afford, Despise the dainties of a venal lord: There ev'ry bush with nature's musick rings; There ev'ry breeze bears health upon its wings; On all thy hours security shall smile, And bless thine evening walk and morning toil.

If they might so take and choose whom they list out of all the fair maids their nation affords, they could happily condescend to marry: otherwise, &c., why should a man marry, saith another epicurean rout, what's matrimony but a matter of money?

One of the misprints which Mr. Spedding notices affords both a hint and a warning to the conjectural emendator.

If it be so great a delight to live at liberty, and to enjoy that variety of objects the world affords; what misery and discontent must it needs bring to him, that shall now be cast headlong into that Spanish inquisition, to fall from heaven to hell, to be cubbed up upon a sudden, how shall he be perplexed, what shall become of him?

The abrasion of the skin in the canal thus produced affords a favorable soil for the growth of vegetable parasites.

Here indeed, more than in any other prospect the road affords, the horizon is changed from that Chaucer looked upon.

4.] Again, we must be content rather to hint at than to develop the matter for reflection and study that Plutarch affords, and unwillingly pass by, without even a glance at them, large domains of thought that lie within his pages.

I regret that I cannot give "H.L.B." any further information about these ladies than the colophon I transcribed affords.

But zeal peculiar privilege affords, Indulging latitude to deeds and words: And Corah might for Agag's murder call, In terms as coarse as Samuel used to Saul.