Scenes in Palestine, Or Dramatic Sketches from the Bible, to which is Added The Fair Avenger, Or The Destroyer Destroyed, an Academic DramaW. Cole, 1825 |
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... blood must pour On my red altars , if thou hopest to win My smiles and favour : -Ay , of human blood ! Why dost thou start ? A brother's reeking blood Must flow : and from thy hand I now demand His corse in sacrifice ! Why standest thou ...
... blood must pour On my red altars , if thou hopest to win My smiles and favour : -Ay , of human blood ! Why dost thou start ? A brother's reeking blood Must flow : and from thy hand I now demand His corse in sacrifice ! Why standest thou ...
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... blood , and laugh to hear His groans of anguish uttered to the winds , So they foretold his speedy dissolution ! SATAN . ' Tis thy firm arm that must the minion lay Low in the dust ! Thou knowest the doom decreed On all the human race ...
... blood , and laugh to hear His groans of anguish uttered to the winds , So they foretold his speedy dissolution ! SATAN . ' Tis thy firm arm that must the minion lay Low in the dust ! Thou knowest the doom decreed On all the human race ...
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... blood will I In sacrifice pour to the god I serve , Whose priest I now shall be , and thus I rid Me of thy hated presence , and revenge The wrongs which thou hast done me . ABEL . Cruel Cain ! And canst thou , canst thou take away my ...
... blood will I In sacrifice pour to the god I serve , Whose priest I now shall be , and thus I rid Me of thy hated presence , and revenge The wrongs which thou hast done me . ABEL . Cruel Cain ! And canst thou , canst thou take away my ...
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... blood flows to my feet . What have I done ? Away , thou instrument of death and murder ; A brother's blood is on thee ! How dark it is . Shine forth , thou moon , and cast thy light abroad , To cheer the shadow of death that all things ...
... blood flows to my feet . What have I done ? Away , thou instrument of death and murder ; A brother's blood is on thee ! How dark it is . Shine forth , thou moon , and cast thy light abroad , To cheer the shadow of death that all things ...
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... blood - hawk ; or look forth Towards the lone desert , and behold afar The moving of its wind - stirred sea of sand , Whose crimson columns , lifted to the sky , With horrid stride stalk o'er the dismal waste , The traveller burying ...
... blood - hawk ; or look forth Towards the lone desert , and behold afar The moving of its wind - stirred sea of sand , Whose crimson columns , lifted to the sky , With horrid stride stalk o'er the dismal waste , The traveller burying ...
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ABSALOM ACHIOR Agatharchides AHINADAB altar amid Aonia ARBONA arms art thou Baal banners BASHEMATH beauty behold beneath blest blood bowers bright brows Cain camp Canaanites chief clouds dark death doth dramatic dreadful dwell earth ELISHAMA ESRAHADON fear fire flame fling flocks flood flowers gates glory gods gold golden groves happy harp hast hath hear heart heaven Hebrew hills Hippalus HOLOFERNES honour host India Israel Jacob JAPHIA Jehovah Jericho JOAB JUDITH king land light lord Moab moon morn mountain numbers o'er odours ORPAH OZIAS pillar poem Poetry pomp priests prince proud Ptolemy Philometor purple Raamah RACHEL radiant renowned rich rose Royal Minstrel Sabeans sacred SANBASSARUS SCENE Shallumah shalt shout soft Solomon song spear Strabo streams sweet sword Syriac languages tabernacle thee THIRZA throne towers tribe of Dan tribes voice warlike waters waves wild winds worship Yemen yonder ZEPHAZOR Zion's ZOBATH
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Page xi - And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
Page 167 - The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
Page 5 - So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
Page x - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 33 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered.
Page x - Through the high wood echoing shrill : Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedgerow elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate Where the great Sun begins his state, Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight...
Page 168 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 5 - And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.
Page 33 - And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man. All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.