Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 3T.W. White, 1837 |
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... feel sure that the object is worthless . The home of Ellee's mother was tidy and neat . Ellee had learned to do many ... feeling of compunction for the neglect of that most sacred duty . The first night I spent in the village I could not ...
... feel sure that the object is worthless . The home of Ellee's mother was tidy and neat . Ellee had learned to do many ... feeling of compunction for the neglect of that most sacred duty . The first night I spent in the village I could not ...
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... feel - Feel did I say ? Ah , yes- mortuus , as the accursed lawyers have it ) , used dryly to and that brings me back to myself and my narrative . observe , " make up in shortness what they want in I feel under these long , slender ...
... feel - Feel did I say ? Ah , yes- mortuus , as the accursed lawyers have it ) , used dryly to and that brings me back to myself and my narrative . observe , " make up in shortness what they want in I feel under these long , slender ...
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... feel almost like climbing the mountains at a breath . Singularly enough , as I thought , I happened there at a time when no other stranger was present - not a solitary being could be found to accom- pany me to the heights of Mount ...
... feel almost like climbing the mountains at a breath . Singularly enough , as I thought , I happened there at a time when no other stranger was present - not a solitary being could be found to accom- pany me to the heights of Mount ...
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... feel undue solicitude about the di- vision of honors before they are won , is the appropriate employ . ment of carpet heroes , in whatever walk of life they may be found . The qualifications of such would fit them better to thread the ...
... feel undue solicitude about the di- vision of honors before they are won , is the appropriate employ . ment of carpet heroes , in whatever walk of life they may be found . The qualifications of such would fit them better to thread the ...
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... feels no desire to precipitate the events which he has to those only who are so professedly , but to those also ... feeling , the lofty patriotism , and bably find in it some reason to doubt their success , filial devotion to Virginia ...
... feels no desire to precipitate the events which he has to those only who are so professedly , but to those also ... feeling , the lofty patriotism , and bably find in it some reason to doubt their success , filial devotion to Virginia ...
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Page 346 - God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments ; we have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments : neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
Page 48 - God's blessing breathed upon the fainting earth ! Go, rock the little wood-bird in his nest, Curl the still waters, bright with stars, and rouse The wide old wood from his majestic rest, Summoning from the...
Page 346 - Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Page 47 - Death should come Gently to one of gentle mould like thee, As light winds wandering through groves of bloom Detach the delicate blossom from the tree.
Page 43 - Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth In her fair page; see, every season brings New change, to her, of everlasting youth; Still the green soil, with joyous living things, Swarms, the wide air is full of joyous wings, And myriads, still, are happy in the sleep Of ocean's azure gulfs, and where he flings The restless surge. Eternal Love doth keep In his complacent arms, the earth, the air, the deep.
Page 348 - And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Page 345 - For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.
Page 47 - ... the long, long summer hours The golden light should lie, And thick, young herbs and groups of flowers Stand in their beauty by. The oriole should build and tell His love-tale, close beside my cell ; The idle butterfly Should rest him there, and there be heard The housewife bee and humming-bird.
Page 48 - God! when Thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunder-bolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift, dark whirlwind that uproots the woods And drowns the villages; when, at Thy call, Uprises the great deep and throws himself Upon the continent, and overwhelms Its cities; who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of Thy power, His...
Page 348 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...