The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber, and PollokJ. Grigg, 1833 - 470 pages |
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... ancient phi- more recently in the popular harangues of Whit - losophers and poets , the Christian fathers of the field and Wesley ; and a practice we will add , Greek and Latin churches , or the still more re- which derives countenance ...
... ancient phi- more recently in the popular harangues of Whit - losophers and poets , the Christian fathers of the field and Wesley ; and a practice we will add , Greek and Latin churches , or the still more re- which derives countenance ...
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... ancient Society for Promoting Christian was in my power , I have done so much less than I Knowledge , which had for some years been en- ought to have done , to render that welfare eternal . gaged in active benevolent operations in India ...
... ancient Society for Promoting Christian was in my power , I have done so much less than I Knowledge , which had for some years been en- ought to have done , to render that welfare eternal . gaged in active benevolent operations in India ...
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... ancient people , surprise and displeasure in the minds , not only of are collectively and individually under the sentence those who are strangers to the powerful and pecu - of reprobation from God , and under a moral in- liar emotions ...
... ancient people , surprise and displeasure in the minds , not only of are collectively and individually under the sentence those who are strangers to the powerful and pecu - of reprobation from God , and under a moral in- liar emotions ...
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... ancient churches of the island , and which he was anxious to restore . the East lay very near his heart , and that he avail- Another object , which at the same time engrossed ed himself of every proper occasion to cultivate it . much of ...
... ancient churches of the island , and which he was anxious to restore . the East lay very near his heart , and that he avail- Another object , which at the same time engrossed ed himself of every proper occasion to cultivate it . much of ...
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... 'er the land , That mighty Angel lifts his golden wand , Courts the bright vision of descending power , ( 51 ) Tells every gate , and measures every tower ( 52 ) ? Hail the glad beam , and claim their ancient home HEBER'S POEMS .
... 'er the land , That mighty Angel lifts his golden wand , Courts the bright vision of descending power , ( 51 ) Tells every gate , and measures every tower ( 52 ) ? Hail the glad beam , and claim their ancient home HEBER'S POEMS .
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Page 280 - THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm — A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childlike form.
Page 11 - Lo ! such the child whose early feet The paths of peace have trod ; Whose secret heart, with influence sweet, Is upward drawn to God.
Page 271 - O'er each fair sleeping brow ; She had each folded flower in sight, — Where are those dreamers now ? One, 'midst the forests of the West, By a dark stream is laid, — The Indian knows his place of rest, Far in the cedar shade.
Page 11 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning ! Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thine aid ! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid ! <#irst Sunbag after %ip|rang.— No.
Page 11 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 280 - Say, Father, say, If yet my task is done!" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. "Speak, Father!" once again he cried, "If I may yet be gone!
Page 2 - And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 10 - The martyr first, whose eagle eye Could pierce beyond the grave, Who saw his Master in the sky, And called on Him to save. Like Him, with pardon on His tongue, In midst of mortal pain, He prayed for them that did the wrong; Who follows in His train?
Page 21 - Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb ; The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee, And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom.
Page 264 - There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth.