Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Revived, Volume 1

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T. Bensley, 1814

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Pagina 307 - Unless he feel within Some source of consolation from above. Secret refreshings that repair his strength And fainting spirits uphold.
Pagina 307 - The angelic orders, and inferior creatures mute, Irrational and brute? Nor do I name of men the common rout, That, wandering loose about, Grow up and perish as the summer fly, Heads without name, no more remembered...
Pagina 223 - Let him that will, ascend the tottering seat Of courtly grandeur, and become as great As are his mounting wishes : as for me, Let sweet repose and rest my portion be.
Pagina 292 - Prologue tedious seem, Or the rest too long they deem ; Let them know my love they win, Though they go ere I begin, Just as if they should attend me, Till the last, and then commend me.
Pagina 306 - To the inmost mind, There exercise all his fierce accidents, And on her purest spirits prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense...
Pagina 208 - And in nothing terrified by your adversaries : which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
Pagina 192 - ... very men, in their secret conventicles, did covenant and swear to each other to be assiduous and faithful in using their best endeavours to set up the presbyterian doctrine and discipline ; and both in such a manner as they themselves had not yet agreed on, but up that government must. To which end, there were many that wandered up and down, and were active in sowing discontents and sedition by venomous and secret murmurings...
Pagina 48 - Good days are coming on : Come then, my brethren, and be glad, And eke rejoice with me ; Lawn sleeves and rochets shall go down, And hey ! then up go we...
Pagina 307 - And people's safety, which in part they effect : Yet toward these, thus dignified, thou oft, Amidst their height of noon, Changest thy countenance, and thy hand, with no regard Of highest favours past From thee on them, or them to thee of service.
Pagina 229 - God. Live still to die, that you by death may purchase eternal life. And trust not that the tenderness of your age shall lengthen your life; for as soon, if God call, goeth the young as the old. And labour always to learn to die.

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