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Pagina 6
... earth , and feel to be the best part of themselves ? What is that but something religious ? Yet is not poetry this ? A mind poetical , but not in its religion , must needs be in an habitual state of religious indifference or rebellion ...
... earth , and feel to be the best part of themselves ? What is that but something religious ? Yet is not poetry this ? A mind poetical , but not in its religion , must needs be in an habitual state of religious indifference or rebellion ...
Pagina 7
... earth a dead level , with just fall enough for rivers and canals . The natural geography of the globe might have run in lines of latitude and longitude like the boundaries in the United States . Let some one write a book on the ...
... earth a dead level , with just fall enough for rivers and canals . The natural geography of the globe might have run in lines of latitude and longitude like the boundaries in the United States . Let some one write a book on the ...
Pagina 8
... earth , because it is God's footstool . Wealth is personified , and expressed by the name of a false god . The whole manner of our Saviour's final entrance into Jerusalem , considered as a means of converting the Jews , was most ...
... earth , because it is God's footstool . Wealth is personified , and expressed by the name of a false god . The whole manner of our Saviour's final entrance into Jerusalem , considered as a means of converting the Jews , was most ...
Pagina 18
... earth , and earthly things , each eye Unalterably bent . VIII . And yet it seemed as if the vows Of those , the faithful few , Might plead with Christ for his blest spouse , The church - oppressed , yet true . The next is on a different ...
... earth , and earthly things , each eye Unalterably bent . VIII . And yet it seemed as if the vows Of those , the faithful few , Might plead with Christ for his blest spouse , The church - oppressed , yet true . The next is on a different ...
Pagina 22
... earth , in bright array , Shows all to thee so mild ! Yea , I do weep , and with the dew Of pearly tears , my prayers shall rise For thee : they may prevail , who sue To God with streaming eyes . Perhaps the following , which is the ...
... earth , in bright array , Shows all to thee so mild ! Yea , I do weep , and with the dew Of pearly tears , my prayers shall rise For thee : they may prevail , who sue To God with streaming eyes . Perhaps the following , which is the ...
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Pagina 495 - And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, . No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
Pagina 162 - But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
Pagina 478 - Every step in the proceedings carried the mind either backward through many troubled centuries to the days when the foundations of our constitution were laid, or far away over boundless seas and deserts to dusky nations living under strange stars, worshipping strange gods, and writing strange characters from right to left.
Pagina 479 - There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.
Pagina 399 - A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.
Pagina 330 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Pagina 480 - ... urbanity. But in spite of the absence of these two distinguished members of the Lower House, the box in which the managers stood contained an array of speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides.
Pagina 478 - ... of gibraltar against the fleets and armies of france and spain the long procession was closed by the duke of norfolk earl marshal of the realm by the great dignitaries and by the brothers and sons of the king last of all came the prince of wales conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing...
Pagina 328 - Scorn not the sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow...
Pagina 480 - ... comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of the age, his form developed by every manly exercise, his face beaming with intelligence and spirit, the ingenious, the chivalrous, the high-souled Windham. Nor, though surrounded by such men, did the youngest manager pass unnoticed.