 | James Martineau - 1874 - 786 sidor
...stubborn will, We blindly shun the latent good, And grasp the specious ill ; BEWARE LEST YE FORGET GOD. 4 Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts supply ; The good unasked in mercy grant; The ill, though asked, deny. JAMES MERRICK, 1763. 4 1 7 .... | |
 | Thomas Griffith - 1875 - 478 sidor
...885. And Plato, Alcib. ii. 142 e. :— "i\iiin SISov, TO K JewA Kai {vxpidpots djraX^feu' jceXefct." " Not to my wish, but to my want, Do Thou Thy gifts apply : Unasked, what good Thou knowest, grant ; What ill, though asked, deny." And Xenoph., Mem. i. 8. 1.... | |
 | Balliol College (University of Oxford) - 1877 - 148 sidor
...subdued, Too oft, with stubborn will, We blindly shun the latent good, And grasp the specious ill ; Not to my wish, but to my want, Do Thou Thy gifts supply; The good unasked in mercy grant; The ill, though asked, deny. HAWE1S, THOMAS. (1792.) 77 O... | |
 | Evangelical union - 1878 - 486 sidor
...subdued, Since oft my stubborn will Preposterous shuns the latent good, And grasps the specious ill, 4 Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts supply ; Unasked, what good thou knowest, grant; What ill, though asked, deny. James Merrick. 1705.... | |
 | Gleanings - 1882 - 438 sidor
...to meet the Lord!" r ' •>:-:/.' • ' •7"-T i " Sinners, professors, hear, REV. JOHN NEWTON. 127 Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou Thy gifts apply ; Unasked, what good Thou knowest, grant ; What ill, though asked, deny. ;e," i: |lefi. f Born 1725.... | |
 | Thomas Benson Pollock - 1882 - 438 sidor
...is good, though I fail to ask it : deny me what is evil, though I ask it : give me Thy Holy Spirit. Not to my wish, but to my want, Do Thou Thy gifts apply; The good unasked in mercy grant, The ill, though asked, deny. " When ye were the servants of sin, ye... | |
 | Samuel Willoughby Duffield - 1886 - 706 sidor
...of which the present first line is from the fifth. The concluding quatrain is the famous stanza : " Not to my wish, but to my want. Do thou thy gifts apply : Unask'd, what good thou knowcst, grant ; What ill, tho1 ask'd, deny." The rare little book which contains this piece is possessed,... | |
 | John Hunter - 1889 - 712 sidor
...subdued, Too oft, with stubborn will, We blindly shun the latent good, And grasp the specious ill ; 4. Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts supply ; The good unasked in mercy grant ; The ill, though asked, deny. James Merriek, 1763. 386. The... | |
 | 1894 - 430 sidor
...is good, though I fail to ask it : deny me what is evil, though I ask it : give me Thy Holy Spirit. Not to my wish, but to my want, Do Thou Thy gifts apply ; The good unasked in mercy grant, The ill, though asked, deny. " When ye were the senants of sin,... | |
 | Harvard University - 1895 - 496 sidor
...subdued, Since oft my stubborn will Preposterous shuns the latent good, And grasps the specious ill, Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts apply ; Unasked, what good thou knowest grant, What ill, though asked, deny. JAMES MERRICK, 1720-1769. ST.... | |
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Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts apply .. Unask'd, what good thou knowest, grant ; What ill, though ask'd, deny. 
