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... ancient city's strengthen'd bounds within , A lofty scaffold , cloth'd in doleful black , Amid a close wedg'd multitude uprear'd , For consequence of stern judicial doom . * Stood round the scene of death th ' engines of fate ; - Sad ...
... ancient city's strengthen'd bounds within , A lofty scaffold , cloth'd in doleful black , Amid a close wedg'd multitude uprear'd , For consequence of stern judicial doom . * Stood round the scene of death th ' engines of fate ; - Sad ...
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... obscure and cloudy day . Like the prophetic voice of ancient seers His words stuck as an arrow in my reins . Then stooping solemn , he pronounc'd a prayer , The King . And reverently inclin'd him on the block : Till glided 11.
... obscure and cloudy day . Like the prophetic voice of ancient seers His words stuck as an arrow in my reins . Then stooping solemn , he pronounc'd a prayer , The King . And reverently inclin'd him on the block : Till glided 11.
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... ancient kings ; As a foul stain is solv'd , and stigmatized Upon the land albeit it is judg'd : That public weal must soar , and be supreme . But be it so , that royal blood is pure , And of a sort so sacred and divine That human ...
... ancient kings ; As a foul stain is solv'd , and stigmatized Upon the land albeit it is judg'd : That public weal must soar , and be supreme . But be it so , that royal blood is pure , And of a sort so sacred and divine That human ...
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... ancient stays and bulwarks of the state : The senate of our sires to supersede By the same privilege that should convene , † * Queen Henrietta , wife of Charles I. , and sister to the King of France , a principal cause of all his errors ...
... ancient stays and bulwarks of the state : The senate of our sires to supersede By the same privilege that should convene , † * Queen Henrietta , wife of Charles I. , and sister to the King of France , a principal cause of all his errors ...
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... ancient and unchanged friend , Who seem'd in mystic circle to peruse A gleaming page : and hallow'd words he heard , * Of one of Macedonia , who besought The ever - blessed Paul to be their help . The sweet and holy pageant did dissolve ...
... ancient and unchanged friend , Who seem'd in mystic circle to peruse A gleaming page : and hallow'd words he heard , * Of one of Macedonia , who besought The ever - blessed Paul to be their help . The sweet and holy pageant did dissolve ...
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Page 180 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 171 - Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; 3 because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
Page 180 - Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven. Their martyred blood and ashes sow O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Page 172 - My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
Page xxii - I thankfully acknowledge your love in your kind remembrance of me upon this opportunity. Alas, you do too highly prize my lines, and my company. I may be ashamed to own your expressions considering how unprofitable I am, and the mean improvement of my talent. " Yet to honour my God by declaring what He hath done for my soul, in this I am confident, and I will be so. Truly, then, this I find : That He giveth springs in a dry barren wilderness where no water is. I live, you know where, — in Meshec,...
Page xxv - And thus to be a seeker is to be of the best sect next to a finder; and such an one shall every faithful humble seeker be at the end. Happy seeker, happy finder ! Who ever tasted that the Lord is gracious, without some sense of self, vanity, and badness?
Page xxv - His favours to thee more and more. The great good thy soul can wish is, That the Lord lift upon thee the light of His countenance, which is better than life. The Lord bless all thy good counsel and example to all those about thee, and hear all thy prayers, and accept thee always. I am glad to hear thy son and daughter are with thee.
Page 169 - Psalm 32 22 For from thine eyes cut off I am, I in my haste had said; My voice yet heard'st thou, when to thee with cries my moan I made.