A Treasury of English ProseLogan Pearsall Smith Houghton Mifflin, 1920 - 237 pages |
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... - post towards all the " two - and - thirty Palaces . " How happy is such a voyage of conception , what delicious , diligent indolence ! KEATS . 781875 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THE editor acknowledges his indebtedness to the authors and.
... - post towards all the " two - and - thirty Palaces . " How happy is such a voyage of conception , what delicious , diligent indolence ! KEATS . 781875 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THE editor acknowledges his indebtedness to the authors and.
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... happy memory , some thick and palpable clouds of darkness would so have overshadowed this Land , that men should have been in doubt which way they were to walk ; and that it should hardly be known , who was to direct the unsettled State ...
... happy memory , some thick and palpable clouds of darkness would so have overshadowed this Land , that men should have been in doubt which way they were to walk ; and that it should hardly be known , who was to direct the unsettled State ...
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... happy shall he be , that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us . Happy shall he be , that taketh and dash- eth thy little ones against the stones . THE HARLOT Psalm cxxxvii . FOR at the window of my house I looked through my casement ...
... happy shall he be , that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us . Happy shall he be , that taketh and dash- eth thy little ones against the stones . THE HARLOT Psalm cxxxvii . FOR at the window of my house I looked through my casement ...
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... HAPPY are they which live not in that disadvantage of time , when men could say little for futurity , but from reason : whereby the noblest minds fell often upon doubtful deaths , and melancholy dissolutions . With these hopes ...
... HAPPY are they which live not in that disadvantage of time , when men could say little for futurity , but from reason : whereby the noblest minds fell often upon doubtful deaths , and melancholy dissolutions . With these hopes ...
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... fore- beings . And if any have been so happy as truly to understand Christian annihilation , ecstacies , exolu- tion , liquefaction , transformation , the kiss of the 76 SIR THOMAS BROWNE Christian Immortality Night Astrology Sentences.
... fore- beings . And if any have been so happy as truly to understand Christian annihilation , ecstacies , exolu- tion , liquefaction , transformation , the kiss of the 76 SIR THOMAS BROWNE Christian Immortality Night Astrology Sentences.
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Page 31 - All things come alike to all : there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked ; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not : as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 34 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming ; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 19 - And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, C 261 3 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Page 15 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty; let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we — steal, P.
Page 33 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
Page 15 - I think the king is but a man, as I am : the violet smells to him, as it doth to me ; the element shows to him, as it doth to me ; all his senses have but human conditions ; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man...
Page 35 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns ; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Page 90 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 35 - Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers...
Page 87 - God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.