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Pagina 19
... dark pages of God's providence , and it is seen that the suffering and shame of idiocy are the result of sin , of a viola- tion of the merciful laws of God and of the harmo- nies of his benign order . The penalties which are ordained ...
... dark pages of God's providence , and it is seen that the suffering and shame of idiocy are the result of sin , of a viola- tion of the merciful laws of God and of the harmo- nies of his benign order . The penalties which are ordained ...
Pagina 65
... years ago , we read for the first time that dark page of our Colonial history , — the expulsion of the French neutrals , was reawakened by the simple pathos VOL . II . E of the poem ; and we longed to find an Evangeline . 65 PAGE.
... years ago , we read for the first time that dark page of our Colonial history , — the expulsion of the French neutrals , was reawakened by the simple pathos VOL . II . E of the poem ; and we longed to find an Evangeline . 65 PAGE.
Pagina 91
... dark and starless : yet , somehow , out of this dark- ness which may be felt , the light is to burst forth miraculously ; wrong , sin , pain , and sorrow are to be banished from the renovated world , and earth become a vast epicurean ...
... dark and starless : yet , somehow , out of this dark- ness which may be felt , the light is to burst forth miraculously ; wrong , sin , pain , and sorrow are to be banished from the renovated world , and earth become a vast epicurean ...
Pagina 100
... dark woods . The log huts of the first settlers had at that time given place to comparatively spacious and commodious habitations , framed and covered with sawed boards , and cloven clapboards , or shin- gles . They were , many of them ...
... dark woods . The log huts of the first settlers had at that time given place to comparatively spacious and commodious habitations , framed and covered with sawed boards , and cloven clapboards , or shin- gles . They were , many of them ...
Pagina 112
John Greenleaf Whittier. THE GREAT IPSWICH FRIGHT . " The Frere into the dark gazed forth ; The sounds went onward towards the north ; The murmur of tongues , the tramp and tread Of a mighty army to battle led . " * IFE'S tragedy and ...
John Greenleaf Whittier. THE GREAT IPSWICH FRIGHT . " The Frere into the dark gazed forth ; The sounds went onward towards the north ; The murmur of tongues , the tramp and tread Of a mighty army to battle led . " * IFE'S tragedy and ...
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Pagina 279 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Pagina 122 - They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick ; but go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice : for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Pagina 136 - Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town.
Pagina 214 - But the righteous live for evermore; their reward also is with the Lord, and the care of them is with the most High. Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, and a beautiful crown from the Lord's hand: for with his right hand shall he cover them, and with his arm shall he protect them.
Pagina 274 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Pagina 395 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Pagina 156 - Faces clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair, Laughed in the flickering light, and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine.
Pagina 43 - But on all this misery society looked with profound indifference. Nowhere could be found that sensitive and restless compassion which has, in our time, extended a powerful protection to the factory child, to the Hindoo widow, to the negro slave, which pries into the stores and watercasks of every emigrant ship, which winces at every lash laid on the back of a drunken soldier, which will not suffer the thief in the hulks to be ill fed or overworked, and which has repeatedly endeavored to save the...
Pagina 246 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Pagina 393 - But patience is more oft the exercise Of saints, the trial of their fortitude, Making them each his own deliverer, And victor over all That tyranny or fortune can inflict.