 | Harvard University - 1896 - 500 sidor
...dwell, Thy love my footsteps guide ; That love shall vainer loves expel, That fear all fears beside. Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts apply ; Unasked, what good thou knowest grant, What ill, though asked, deny. ST. STEPHEN. CM WILLIAM JONES,... | |
 | 1898 - 554 sidor
...dwell, Thy love my footsteps guide ; That love shall vainer loves expel, That fear all fears beside. 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 MBRRICK, 1730-1769. M>... | |
 | Robert Neil Grant - 1899 - 316 sidor
...unforeseen trials, cherish a firm and abiding belief in the unerring ordinations of heaven, saying : " Not to my wish, but to my want, Do Thou Thy gifts supply ; Unasked, what good thou knowest, grant ; What ill, though asked, deny." But there is another... | |
 | John Hunter - 1904 - 920 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 Merrich, 1763. 524. The... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 524 sidor
...subdu'd, 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...Thou knowest, grant ; What ill, though ask'd, deny. An Epitaph (From the Latin of Dr. John Jortin) Thee, Paeta, Death's relentless hand Cut off in earliest... | |
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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. 
