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... lights ; to feast the eye on the crags and on the battlements of the dear old castle in its nest of green , and on a thousand pictures of living beauty which refresh the eye at every turn ! Might not the fine old city seem to say to ...
... lights ; to feast the eye on the crags and on the battlements of the dear old castle in its nest of green , and on a thousand pictures of living beauty which refresh the eye at every turn ! Might not the fine old city seem to say to ...
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... light , and whence it flows , He sees it in his joy ; The youth , who daily farther from the east Must travel , still is nature's priest , And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At length the man perceives it die away , And ...
... light , and whence it flows , He sees it in his joy ; The youth , who daily farther from the east Must travel , still is nature's priest , And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At length the man perceives it die away , And ...
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... light will occasionally be of service , by affording the necessary con- clusions , without the labour of going through the preli- minary steps . But the main object of my commencing is the wish to treasure up the prominent features of ...
... light will occasionally be of service , by affording the necessary con- clusions , without the labour of going through the preli- minary steps . But the main object of my commencing is the wish to treasure up the prominent features of ...
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... light waving back- wards and forwards in the sky . You know to what delightful ideas such a description gives rise . In pleasing meditation 1832-37 . HOLIDAY PLEASURES . 31 I laid myself back 30 CHAP . II . MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON .
... light waving back- wards and forwards in the sky . You know to what delightful ideas such a description gives rise . In pleasing meditation 1832-37 . HOLIDAY PLEASURES . 31 I laid myself back 30 CHAP . II . MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON .
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... light waved to and fro in the heavens by the hands of archangels , the drop - scene as it were of heaven , which , rolled back as a scroll , would show the cherubim and seraphim hymning to their lyres ; and often last winter when ...
... light waved to and fro in the heavens by the hands of archangels , the drop - scene as it were of heaven , which , rolled back as a scroll , would show the cherubim and seraphim hymning to their lyres ; and often last winter when ...
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Página 65 - But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on...
Página 306 - HOW doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...
Página 205 - Its features were fixed and meaningless, Yet animal life was there, And every organ yet performed Its natural functions : 'twas a sight Of wonder to behold the body and soul. The self-same lineaments, the same Marks of identity were there : Yet, oh, how different ! One aspires to Heaven, Pants for its sempiternal heritage, And ever-changing, ever-rising still, Wantons in endless being.
Página 2 - THEY grew in beauty side by side, They filled one home with glee, Their graves are severed far and wide, By mount, and stream, and sea. The same fond mother bent at night O'er each fair sleeping brow, She had each folded flower in sight— Where are those dreamers now? One midst the...
Página 367 - Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart...
Página 6 - God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, the Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads...
Página 88 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him : but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob...
Página 316 - God's countenance, and a few groans by the infinite and eternal hallelujahs ; so much are the sorrows of the godly to be undervalued in respect of what is deposited for them in the treasures of Eternity.
Página 154 - ... where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. ^And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : ** where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Página 151 - The particular pangs are now forgotten ; but the blank whirlwind of emotion, the horror of great darkness, and the sense of desertion by God and man, bordering close upon despair, which swept through my mind and overwhelmed my heart, I can never forget, however gladly I would do so.