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affliction Alda's anguish appeared arms art thou Aurelius Azor baptism beams behold bitter blessed bosom British captive cast cheek Christian cruel daugh daughter death divine dreadful Druids dwelling earthly Emperor endeavoured eternal everlasting evil exclaimed eyes fair brow faith fallen fear feelings fellow-slaves felt fierce followed forgive glance gods grief hand hath haughty heart heaven Heavenly Father holy hour Iceni imperial Judean lady Lælia lence light lips listened look Lord Mainos Marcus Lælius melancholy mistress morning Narsa Nero never night noble noble lady numbers offered pale Pamphylia peace perceived persecuted Pomponia praise prisoners rejoined remembrance replied returned Alda returned Susanna RICKERBY robbers Roman Roman soldiers Rome sanna scarcely Seven Hills silent sins slavery slaves sorrow spirit stranger sufferings tears tender thee things thou thought tion tortures trembling turned Tusculum unhappy uttered violence voice weary weep wild young Briton
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Page 110 - And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
Page 110 - Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts : smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered : and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
Page 97 - Were this frail world our only rest. Living or dying, none were blest. 2 Beyond the flight of time, Beyond this vale of death, There surely is some blessed clime Where life is not a breath, Nor life's affections transient fire, Whose sparks fly upward to expire.
Page 110 - And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Page 179 - Live you? or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Page 109 - If ye think good, give me my price ; and if not, forbear." So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said unto me, "Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prized at of them!" And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord.
Page 54 - Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you, that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven ; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Page 108 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself. And the people of the Prince, that shall come, shall destroy the city and the sanctuary : and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Page 18 - If dying mortals' doom they sing aright, No ghosts descend to dwell in dreadful night: No parting souls to grisly Pluto go, Nor seek the dreary, silent, shades below; But forth they fly, immortal in their kind, And other bodies in new worlds they find.
Page 18 - Hence they no can's for this frail being feel, But rush undaunted on the pointed steel : Provoke approaching fate, and bravely scorn To spare that life which must so soon return.