From the Nile to Norway and HomewardR. Carter, 1881 - 357 páginas |
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From the Nile to Norway and Homeward (Classic Reprint) Theodore L. Cuyler Pré-visualização indisponível - 2018 |
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Acropolis American ancient Apostle Arab Areopagus Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Athens Austrian beautiful beloved Beyrout Bible blessed boat Bosphorus bright building cabin Cairo centuries chapel Christian Church close College Constantinople Corfu crowd day-dawn Dean DEAN STANLEY deck Egypt England English Ephesus eyes famous feet finest flowers France garden Gothenburg Greek half Hall harbor hills hour hundred island Jaffa Jerusalem Jews Khedive King land lofty London look Lord magnificent marble Marseilles Mediterranean miles Mission morning mosque Mount Mussulmen Naples night Nile to Norway noble o'clock once Orient Palace PALACE OF WESTMINSTER Palestine Parthenon passed passengers Paul picturesque Presbyterian reached ROBERT CARTER Robert College rocky ruins Sabbath sailed scene shore sight spot Spurgeon stands steamer stone stood streets Sweden sweet thenon Thorwaldsen thousand tion to-day tomb Tower town walked walls Westminster Wittenberg wonderful Yesterday
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Página 176 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Página 177 - twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there : Two paradises 'twere in one, To live in paradise alone. How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new; Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run, And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we ! How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers...
Página 177 - Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide: There like a bird it sits, and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings; And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.
Página 102 - God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands...
Página 157 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Página 131 - My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
Página 179 - goodbye,' and he assured us that he had not yet selected even the text for next day's discourses ! 4 1 shall go down in the garden presently,' said he, ' and arrange my morning discourse and choose a text for that in the evening : then to-morrow afternoon, before preaching, I will make an outline of the second one.
Página 6 - My noble one! I say deliberately her part in the stern battle, and except myself none knows how stern, was brighter, and braver than my own. Thanks, Darling, for your shining words and acts, which were continual in my eyes, and in no other mortal's. Worthless I was your divinity; wrapt in your perpetual love of me and pride in me, in defiance of all men and things.