May You Like itT. Boys, 1822 - 272 pages |
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Page xii
... thoughts , a heavenly hue Of words like sun - beams , dazzling as they pass'd The eyes which o'er them shed tears feelingly and fast ; " and a poor pitiful set have been more abundant , who resemble Spenser's " Fruitful , cursed spawne ...
... thoughts , a heavenly hue Of words like sun - beams , dazzling as they pass'd The eyes which o'er them shed tears feelingly and fast ; " and a poor pitiful set have been more abundant , who resemble Spenser's " Fruitful , cursed spawne ...
Page xv
... thoughts of repentance and reform- ation ; but only , that , considering the pre- sent hurry of his affairs ( as no doubt they were many , ) he should defer it to a longer day . Artifice succeeded , and Fe- lix was PREFACE . KV.
... thoughts of repentance and reform- ation ; but only , that , considering the pre- sent hurry of his affairs ( as no doubt they were many , ) he should defer it to a longer day . Artifice succeeded , and Fe- lix was PREFACE . KV.
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... thought of earthly things remain ; Their joy , their comfort , their desire , their gain , Is fixed all on that which now they see , All other sights but fained shadows be . " - Spenser's Hymn of Heavenly Beauty ROSINE . NE , one ...
... thought of earthly things remain ; Their joy , their comfort , their desire , their gain , Is fixed all on that which now they see , All other sights but fained shadows be . " - Spenser's Hymn of Heavenly Beauty ROSINE . NE , one ...
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... thought , that she might be no longer a burthen to her dear father , had given a sort of tumultuous joy to her feelings , which she had not yet examined . Though a thousand sug- gestions had presented themselves to her mind , as she had ...
... thought , that she might be no longer a burthen to her dear father , had given a sort of tumultuous joy to her feelings , which she had not yet examined . Though a thousand sug- gestions had presented themselves to her mind , as she had ...
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... thought the time flew very swiftly : during the last week of her stay , another temptation nearly shook her resolution . She had felt a slight preference ( to which she never allowed herself to give way ) for her cousin , a young ...
... thought the time flew very swiftly : during the last week of her stay , another temptation nearly shook her resolution . She had felt a slight preference ( to which she never allowed herself to give way ) for her cousin , a young ...
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Page 52 - Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
Page 115 - Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked...
Page 197 - Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Page 103 - Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
Page 155 - Lie not ; but let thy heart be true to God, Thy mouth to it, thy actions to them both.
Page viii - Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew The breath which made him wretched : yet he knew How to make madness beautiful, and cast O'er erring deeds and thoughts a heavenly hue Of words, like sunbeams, dazzling as they past The eyes, which o'er them shed tears feelingly and fast.
Page 59 - If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 219 - Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX. TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY. LADY, that in the prime of earliest youth Wisely hast shunned the broad way and the green, And with those few art eminently seen, That labour up the hill of heavenly truth, The better part with Mary and with Ruth Chosen thou hast...
Page xiv - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow ; While angels with their silver wings o'ersluide The ground, now sacred by thy reliques made.
Page 128 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.