Malvern Hills: With Minor Poems and Essays, Volume 1T. Cadell, 1829 - 512 pages |
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Page 240
... things which others bless , " To you bring naught but wretchedness ! " But , though your purse is deep and strong , " You know you cannot hold it long ; " Your years , on years , have so increased , " You must be four - score , now , at ...
... things which others bless , " To you bring naught but wretchedness ! " But , though your purse is deep and strong , " You know you cannot hold it long ; " Your years , on years , have so increased , " You must be four - score , now , at ...
Page 242
... things then are tight and fast . * 70 * It cannot excite wonder that a Miser should thus deceive him- self , when so many instances occur of MURDERERS receiving the Eucharist just before they are hanged ; and advancing to the gallows ...
... things then are tight and fast . * 70 * It cannot excite wonder that a Miser should thus deceive him- self , when so many instances occur of MURDERERS receiving the Eucharist just before they are hanged ; and advancing to the gallows ...
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... thing " and the certain passport to Heaven , he is ready enough to utter " I believe ! " and to say " I repent , " which means , it is to be feared , I repent of consequences , but not antece- dently of Sin , or irrespectively of Murder ...
... thing " and the certain passport to Heaven , he is ready enough to utter " I believe ! " and to say " I repent , " which means , it is to be feared , I repent of consequences , but not antece- dently of Sin , or irrespectively of Murder ...
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... things , " And so are the ravens beside . " " What are there ravens there ? - those creatures " With feathers so glossy blue ! " But are they ravens ? I enquire , - " For I have heard by the winter's fire , " That phantoms the dead ...
... things , " And so are the ravens beside . " " What are there ravens there ? - those creatures " With feathers so glossy blue ! " But are they ravens ? I enquire , - " For I have heard by the winter's fire , " That phantoms the dead ...
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... things ; Tastes the sweet joys which from devotion flow , And learns the vanity of all below . In this remote and trackless solitude , Fill'd with stupendous cliffs , and caverns rude ; Where every scene with awe inspires the breast ...
... things ; Tastes the sweet joys which from devotion flow , And learns the vanity of all below . In this remote and trackless solitude , Fill'd with stupendous cliffs , and caverns rude ; Where every scene with awe inspires the breast ...
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Page 371 - And said unto the woman ; Now we believe not because of thy saying ; for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
Page 371 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Page 460 - LORD, that my whole hope and confidence may be in his merits, and thy mercy; enforce and accept my imperfect repentance; make this commemoration available to the confirmation of my faith, the establishment of my hope, and the enlargement of my charity; and make the death of thy Son JESUS CHRIST effectual to my redemption. Have mercy upon me, and pardon the multitude of my offences. Bless my friends; have mercy upon all men. Support me, by thy Holy Spirit, in the days of weakness, and at the hour...
Page 319 - ... having of May games, Whitsun ales, and morris dances, and the setting up of maypoles and other sports therewith used: so as the same be had in due and convenient time, without impediment or neglect of divine service...
Page 318 - The report of this growing amendment amongst them made us the more sorry when with our own ears we heard the general complaint of our people that they were barred from all lawful recreation and exercise upon the Sunday's afternoon after the ending of all Divine Service, which cannot but produce two evils...
Page 371 - The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one...
Page 460 - Almighty and most merciful Father, I am now, as to human eyes it seems, about to commemorate, for the last time, the death of thy son Jesus Christ, our Saviour and Redeemer. Grant, O Lord, that my whole hope and confidence may be in his merits and in thy mercy: forgive and accept my late conversion; enforce and accept my imperfect repentance...
Page 429 - Stamps with his iron feet, and sounds to war. She sits upon a rock, She bends before his spear, She rises from the shock Wielding her own in air. Hard as the thunder doth she drive it on...
Page 467 - As to your first query, it seems to me that if the matter of our sun and planets and all the matter of the universe were evenly scattered throughout all the heavens, and every particle had an innate gravity towards all the rest, and the whole space throughout which this matter was scattered was but...
Page 376 - And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.