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... 312 321 328 XXXIX . SWIFT TO HEAR , SLOW TO SPEAK . 334 St. James i . 19 . XL . NO MORE SEA 349 Revelation xxi . I XLI . NO MORE PAIN · 358 Revelation xxi . 4 . INDEX 369 SIDE - LIGHTS ON SCRIPTURE TEXTS . I. THE TREE viii CONTENTS .
... 312 321 328 XXXIX . SWIFT TO HEAR , SLOW TO SPEAK . 334 St. James i . 19 . XL . NO MORE SEA 349 Revelation xxi . I XLI . NO MORE PAIN · 358 Revelation xxi . 4 . INDEX 369 SIDE - LIGHTS ON SCRIPTURE TEXTS . I. THE TREE viii CONTENTS .
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... pains and penalties ensued , and how the young transgressor found even his young life 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 ...
... pains and penalties ensued , and how the young transgressor found even his young life 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 ...
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... pain the suffering author of Small Books on Great Subjects endured , in wistful speculations on high matters ... painful failure to recognize the maxim ascribed to Bacon , though not to be found in his works , unless indirectly , that ...
... pain the suffering author of Small Books on Great Subjects endured , in wistful speculations on high matters ... painful failure to recognize the maxim ascribed to Bacon , though not to be found in his works , unless indirectly , that ...
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... pain , But duly to the ark return'd again , And brought at last the promise and the pledge Of peace , hath won a dearer privilege , " etc. It might be permissible to put some such meaning on Victor Hugo's lines : " Dieu , qui tient dans ...
... pain , But duly to the ark return'd again , And brought at last the promise and the pledge Of peace , hath won a dearer privilege , " etc. It might be permissible to put some such meaning on Victor Hugo's lines : " Dieu , qui tient dans ...
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... pain when she sought to sleep . On and still on she went , resting not by night or day , through the Dorian and Thessalian plains , to the wild Thracian land * —her feet bleeding on the sharp stones , her body torn by the thorns and ...
... pain when she sought to sleep . On and still on she went , resting not by night or day , through the Dorian and Thessalian plains , to the wild Thracian land * —her feet bleeding on the sharp stones , her body torn by the thorns and ...
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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.