Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 453 (9 August 1712)
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), Oh God, the God of Formation
Context: The praising thy mercy.
There hath not been here;
O supreme Ruler;
There hath not been; there will not be,
One so good as the Lord.
There hath not been born in the day of the people
Any one equal to God.
And no one will acknowledge
Any one equal to him.
Above heaven, below heaven,
There is no Ruler but he.
Above sea, below sea,
He created us.
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 453 (9 August 1712)
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“O forgive! Thy sons live from Thee reft;
Praised for grace, Turn thy face to those left,
"Forgiven!"”
Yom Tov of Joigny English rabbi
Omnam Kayn, trans. from the Hebrew by Israel Zangwill
“O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!”
Source: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 120.
“O God, the God of formation,
Ruler, strengthener of blood.”
Taliesin (534–599) Welsh bard
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), Oh God, the God of Formation
Context: O God, the God of formation,
Ruler, strengthener of blood.
Christ Jesus, that guards.
Princes loud-proclaiming go their course
For a decaying acquisition.
“Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise,
And love — a simple duty.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
" To Frances S. Osgood http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/595/" (1845). <br class="br">Context: Thou wouldst be loved? — then let thy heart<br>From its present pathway part not!<br>Being everything which now thou art,<br>Be nothing which thou art not.<br>So with the world thy gentle ways,<br>Thy grace, thy more than beauty,<br>Shall be an endless theme of praise,<br>And love — a simple duty.
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Memories of President Lincoln, 14
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Báb (1819–1850) Iranian prophet; founder of the religion Bábism; venerated in the Bahá'í Faith
Dalá’Il-I-Sab‘ih