The history of the Old and New Testament attempted in verseJohn Hooke, 1716 - 697 pages |
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... vaft Expanfe above was next display'd , The restless Seas , and folid Earth were made : Earth , in her various - colour'd Mantle drefs'd , Each Tree , each Herb , creating Pow'r confefs'd . Behold the Sun's fair Lamp which rules the Day ...
... vaft Expanfe above was next display'd , The restless Seas , and folid Earth were made : Earth , in her various - colour'd Mantle drefs'd , Each Tree , each Herb , creating Pow'r confefs'd . Behold the Sun's fair Lamp which rules the Day ...
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... vaft Attempt they in Ill - Hour began . See where the Tow'ry Walls of Babel rife And threaten , and almoft furmount the Skies ! What Hills on Hills the bufy Pifmires caft , What fruitless Care , and unavailing Haft ! Diftrated men ! Is ...
... vaft Attempt they in Ill - Hour began . See where the Tow'ry Walls of Babel rife And threaten , and almoft furmount the Skies ! What Hills on Hills the bufy Pifmires caft , What fruitless Care , and unavailing Haft ! Diftrated men ! Is ...
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... vaft a Lofs content . What was the World to him when he was gone ? A Defert all , a Skie without a Sun. Yet will he live , her Afbes to perfume , And fcatter Tears and Rofes round her Tomb : A Marble Pillar o'r her Duft he rears , Which ...
... vaft a Lofs content . What was the World to him when he was gone ? A Defert all , a Skie without a Sun. Yet will he live , her Afbes to perfume , And fcatter Tears and Rofes round her Tomb : A Marble Pillar o'r her Duft he rears , Which ...
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... vaft the News , Long did his fainting Heart , Belief refuse : But when he faw the Carriages appear , And did his pious Sons kind melage hear ; Forgotten Foy fhines in his lightn'd Eyes , And thus the aged Sire in Extafies : " Shall ...
... vaft the News , Long did his fainting Heart , Belief refuse : But when he faw the Carriages appear , And did his pious Sons kind melage hear ; Forgotten Foy fhines in his lightn'd Eyes , And thus the aged Sire in Extafies : " Shall ...
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... vaft a Pomp of Woe ! The wond'ring Natives crowd , and ask the cause So large à Troop from Mizraim's Regions draws : The Place's naine preferves the Great Event , Which down from thence unchang'd to distant Ages went . XLIV . Jofeph ...
... vaft a Pomp of Woe ! The wond'ring Natives crowd , and ask the cause So large à Troop from Mizraim's Regions draws : The Place's naine preferves the Great Event , Which down from thence unchang'd to distant Ages went . XLIV . Jofeph ...
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Page 47 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 209 - Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? And when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
Page 115 - And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
Page 181 - And Gideon said unto GOD, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said, behold I will put a fleece of wool in the floor : and if the dew • be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
Page 11 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Page 243 - And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to.
Page 73 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 37 - And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
Page 273 - Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
Page 267 - Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?