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Amidst the royal race, see Nathan stand: Fervent he seems to speak, and lifts his hand; His looks the emotion of his soul disclose, And eloquence from every gesture flows. Such, and so stern he came, ordained to bring The ungrateful mandate to the guilty king: When, at his dreadful voice, a sudden smart Shot through the trembling monarch’s conscious heart, From his own lips condemned, severe decree, Had his God proved as stern a Judge as he.
Amidst the royal race, see Nathan stand: Fervent he seems to speak, and lifts his hand; His looks the emotion of his soul disclose, And eloquence from every gesture flows. Such, and so stern he came, ordained to bring The ungrateful mandate to the guilty king: When, at his dreadful voice, a sudden smart Shot through the trembling monarch’s conscious heart, From his own lips condemned, severe decree, Had his God proved as stern a Judge as he.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Bishop Lowth (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 273 · printed citation: Bishop Lowth · subject: GUILT
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