The Remembrancer: Or, Fragments for Leisure Hours ...T. Ellwood Chapman, 1841 - 216 páginas Collection of essays and poems that provide children with spiritual and moral guidance. |
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... full strength of years ; matron and maid ; The bow'd with age ; the infant in the smiles And beauty of its innocent age cut off , — Shall one by one be gathered to thy side . By those , who in their turn shall follow them 32 THANATOPSIS .
... full strength of years ; matron and maid ; The bow'd with age ; the infant in the smiles And beauty of its innocent age cut off , — Shall one by one be gathered to thy side . By those , who in their turn shall follow them 32 THANATOPSIS .
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... follow them . So live , that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan , that moves To the pale realms of shade , where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death , Thou go not , like the quarry slave at night ...
... follow them . So live , that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan , that moves To the pale realms of shade , where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death , Thou go not , like the quarry slave at night ...
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... follow slow the course Which leads us to their dwelling low , that most we feel their loss . When past the last and solemn rite , and dust to dust has gone , And in its wonted channelled course the stream of life flows on ; Ah ! who can ...
... follow slow the course Which leads us to their dwelling low , that most we feel their loss . When past the last and solemn rite , and dust to dust has gone , And in its wonted channelled course the stream of life flows on ; Ah ! who can ...
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... follow a different conduct . These sources of satisfaction are manifold : we may reckon among them the pleasure attached to the exercise of the affections themselves - a feature of our moral con- stitution of the most interesting kind ...
... follow a different conduct . These sources of satisfaction are manifold : we may reckon among them the pleasure attached to the exercise of the affections themselves - a feature of our moral con- stitution of the most interesting kind ...
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... follows any neglect of a due exercise of the affections , and which , in a well- regulated mind , disturbs the mental tranquillity fully as much as the disapprobation of other men . It is further evident , that the man of ungoverned pas ...
... follows any neglect of a due exercise of the affections , and which , in a well- regulated mind , disturbs the mental tranquillity fully as much as the disapprobation of other men . It is further evident , that the man of ungoverned pas ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
action affections beauty beneath benevolence bless bravery breath bright bright Eyes brow call that mind calm Cambray cerned character Christian clouds dark DAYSTARS death deep Deity desire Divine duty earth Edom ELLWOOD CHAPMAN eternal fame fear Fenelon flowers gift glory golden sun habits hand happiness harmony hath heaven heavenly holy hope hour human humble HYMN impression influence inquire John Woolman Juvenile Books Lake Superior light live Lord mental mighty mind free moral constitution moral feelings mountain mourn nature Neath ness never o'er ocean passed passions peace perfect Petra Pictured Rocks Poems praise presence principle pure purify rest rising rock seek self-love shade shalt shine silent worship smile solemn soul spirit sublime sweet tears tempest temple thee thine things Thou art thou hast thoughts tion truth virtue voice waves wild WILLIAM PENN wing wonders
Passagens conhecidas
Página 30 - Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart, Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth, and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice...
Página 66 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Página 30 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 31 - Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mould.
Página 33 - So live, that when thy summons comes, to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 66 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Página 129 - And now behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there : 23 Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and afflictions abide me.
Página 82 - As one who, destined from his friends to part, Regrets his loss, but hopes again erewhile To share their converse and enjoy their smile, And tempers as he may affliction's dart; Thus, loved associates, chiefs of elder art, Teachers of wisdom, who could once beguile My tedious hours, and lighten every toil, I now resign you; nor with fainting heart; For pass a few short years, or days, or hours, And happier seasons may their dawn unfold, And all your sacred fellowship restore: When, freed from earth,...
Página 182 - For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
Página 32 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.