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... seemed the old ; but fairer still The new the dreary void shall fill , With dearer homes than those o'erthrown ; For Love shall lay each corner - stone . Rise ! stricken city ! -from thee throw The ashen sackcloth of thy woe ; And build ...
... seemed the old ; but fairer still The new the dreary void shall fill , With dearer homes than those o'erthrown ; For Love shall lay each corner - stone . Rise ! stricken city ! -from thee throw The ashen sackcloth of thy woe ; And build ...
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... seemed to drive him thither two or three times in the day , and some- times even late at night . But this might have been because he slept little . One bright , cold , moonlight night he was tak- ing this walk as usual , when the sound ...
... seemed to drive him thither two or three times in the day , and some- times even late at night . But this might have been because he slept little . One bright , cold , moonlight night he was tak- ing this walk as usual , when the sound ...
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... seemed pleased to find a churchman in that remote solitude ; and said he should be glad to confess and hear mass before going on his way next morning . Fray Fernando guessed the reason for this re- quest . Men did not usually come back ...
... seemed pleased to find a churchman in that remote solitude ; and said he should be glad to confess and hear mass before going on his way next morning . Fray Fernando guessed the reason for this re- quest . Men did not usually come back ...
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... seemed to threaten every moment to fall and crush the traveller below . Amidst the wildest scenes of nature , beside ancient ruins hallowed by memories of the past , or under solemn fanes , we thus often meet with the modern Briton ...
... seemed to threaten every moment to fall and crush the traveller below . Amidst the wildest scenes of nature , beside ancient ruins hallowed by memories of the past , or under solemn fanes , we thus often meet with the modern Briton ...
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... seemed to us to possess a kind of mystic beauty which a poet like Quarles , or even George Herbert , would have readily turned into a spiritual allegory . They show you a fountain at which the wise men from the East lay down greatly ...
... seemed to us to possess a kind of mystic beauty which a poet like Quarles , or even George Herbert , would have readily turned into a spiritual allegory . They show you a fountain at which the wise men from the East lay down greatly ...
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Page 238 - Peter answered, and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.
Page 55 - As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
Page 238 - And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with : but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give ; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
Page 292 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 272 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 376 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 190 - And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
Page 59 - Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters...
Page 252 - These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also; Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.
Page 353 - Surely thou didst set them in slippery places : thou castedst them down into destruction. How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment? they are utterly consumed with terrors.