Side-lights on Scripture TextsHodder and Stoughton, 1877 - 376 pages |
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... become a burden to him , one couplet from the sequel will sufficiently indicate ; one in which he vents the bitter cry , " Oh ! had that stolen fruit the power possess'd To war with life , I now had been at rest . " Adam . " The fruit ...
... become a burden to him , one couplet from the sequel will sufficiently indicate ; one in which he vents the bitter cry , " Oh ! had that stolen fruit the power possess'd To war with life , I now had been at rest . " Adam . " The fruit ...
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... becomes the grand faculty , in which all the others are well- nigh absorbed . ” A man , says Bacon , is but what he ... become , in its lower forms , so common , and is spread so widely , that it is no longer looked on as something ...
... becomes the grand faculty , in which all the others are well- nigh absorbed . ” A man , says Bacon , is but what he ... become , in its lower forms , so common , and is spread so widely , that it is no longer looked on as something ...
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... poet is fain to tell a pretentious prig , " If you had lived , sir , Time enough to have been interpreter To Babel's bricklayers , sure the Tower had stood : " and this in Pope's version becomes , " You prove 24 THE TOWER OF BABEL .
... poet is fain to tell a pretentious prig , " If you had lived , sir , Time enough to have been interpreter To Babel's bricklayers , sure the Tower had stood : " and this in Pope's version becomes , " You prove 24 THE TOWER OF BABEL .
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Francis Jacox. and this in Pope's version becomes , " You prove yourself so able , Pity you were not drüggerman at Babel ; For had they found a linguist half so good , I make no question but the Tower had stood . " Dr. Cumming got a rap ...
Francis Jacox. and this in Pope's version becomes , " You prove yourself so able , Pity you were not drüggerman at Babel ; For had they found a linguist half so good , I make no question but the Tower had stood . " Dr. Cumming got a rap ...
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... becomes inert or dejected . And he takes leave of his disciple with the words , " If thou hear that the death which , to my sorrow and in my foolishness , I have failed to recognize as the merciful minister of Heaven , has removed me at ...
... becomes inert or dejected . And he takes leave of his disciple with the words , " If thou hear that the death which , to my sorrow and in my foolishness , I have failed to recognize as the merciful minister of Heaven , has removed me at ...
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admiration anger animals asked Babel become breath called carbonic acid Charles Kingsley Coleridge dead death decay describes divine doth dust earth envy eternal Eutychus evil exclaims eyes fancy feel flattery Francis Jeffrey friends Gallio genius give grave hand happy Hartley Coleridge hath hear heart heaven honour human ignorance Julius Hare King knowledge La Bruyère labour leaves less listen live look Lord Lord Lytton Madame Madame de Staël Martha matter mind misery moral Naboth nature never night observes once pain pass philosopher pity poet praise Rehoboam remarks rest says seems Sennacherib sense Shinar silence Sir Walter Scott sleep sorrow sort soul speak speech spirit strong success suffering talk tells temptation thee things thou thought thousand told tongue tree truth utter Victor Hugo virtue voice Warren Hastings weak wise words writes young Zimri
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Page 195 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves
Page 212 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : • Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Page 142 - And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword : and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
Page 128 - And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel ; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, and said to his servant : " Go up now, look toward the sea.
Page 267 - So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away. Out of Eternity This new Day is born ; Into Eternity, At night, will return. Behold it aforetime No eye ever did : So soon it forever From all eyes is hid. Here hath been dawninoAnother blue Day: ' : Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.
Page 147 - With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; And how his audit stands who knows save heaven?
Page 291 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 319 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them.
Page 275 - And whether we shall meet again I know not. Therefore our everlasting farewell take : For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius ! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile ; If not, why then, this parting was well made.
Page 274 - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.