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... followed afar , with a heart as light As its sparkling wings , the butterfly's flight ; And pulled young flowers , where they grew ' neath the beams Of the sun's fair light , by his own blue streams : Yet he left all these , through the ...
... followed afar , with a heart as light As its sparkling wings , the butterfly's flight ; And pulled young flowers , where they grew ' neath the beams Of the sun's fair light , by his own blue streams : Yet he left all these , through the ...
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... followed ; for when my poor Bouvant was recovered , I found him quite sorry that he was well . ' www.wanans OPENING OF LETTERS . THE Earl of Clarendon passes the following high encomi- um on the brave Lord Falkland , who fell in the ...
... followed ; for when my poor Bouvant was recovered , I found him quite sorry that he was well . ' www.wanans OPENING OF LETTERS . THE Earl of Clarendon passes the following high encomi- um on the brave Lord Falkland , who fell in the ...
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... followed them on to a scandalous life , and perhaps to a shameful death ! My child , mind and observe thy school - fellows and com- panions ; where thou findest any of good nature and good manners , disposed to virtue and religion ...
... followed them on to a scandalous life , and perhaps to a shameful death ! My child , mind and observe thy school - fellows and com- panions ; where thou findest any of good nature and good manners , disposed to virtue and religion ...
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... followed in chains , with their children and attendants ; after the captives came the lictors , having their faces wreathed with laurel , followed by a great com- pany of musicians and dancers , dressed like satyrs , and wearing crowns ...
... followed in chains , with their children and attendants ; after the captives came the lictors , having their faces wreathed with laurel , followed by a great com- pany of musicians and dancers , dressed like satyrs , and wearing crowns ...
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... followed in chains , and all their spoils were exposed to public view . The great apostle of the Gentiles alludes to these splen- did triumphal scenes , in his epistle to the Ephesians , where he mentions the glorious ascension of his ...
... followed in chains , and all their spoils were exposed to public view . The great apostle of the Gentiles alludes to these splen- did triumphal scenes , in his epistle to the Ephesians , where he mentions the glorious ascension of his ...
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Page 81 - BREATHES there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 223 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Page 176 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —
Page 123 - TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. THOU blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end.
Page 220 - Well done, good and faithful servants, enter ye into the joy of your Lord.
Page 175 - And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain; But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every -seed his own body.
Page 21 - twixt Now and Then ! This breathing House not built with hands, This body that does me grievous wrong, O'er aery Cliffs and glittering Sands, How lightly then it flashed along...
Page 224 - I will mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Page 219 - Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
Page 55 - ... him by his master, though of considerable length, fully and faithfully. He runs over the quiverings of the canary, and the clear whistlings of the Virginia nightingale or red-bird, with such superior execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat, by redoubling his exertions.