The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber, and PollokJ. Grigg, 1833 - 470 pages |
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... speak " What other spirit could have prompted a evil of the work itself , rather than that others who member of that church which professes to hold out followed not with them should cast out devils in the greatest comfort to sinners ...
... speak " What other spirit could have prompted a evil of the work itself , rather than that others who member of that church which professes to hold out followed not with them should cast out devils in the greatest comfort to sinners ...
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... speak in vain ; For eloquence , whose honeyed sway Our frailer mortal wits obey , Can honour give to actions ill , And faith to deeds incredible ; - And bitter blame , and praises high , Fall truest from posterity.— But , if we dare the ...
... speak in vain ; For eloquence , whose honeyed sway Our frailer mortal wits obey , Can honour give to actions ill , And faith to deeds incredible ; - And bitter blame , and praises high , Fall truest from posterity.— But , if we dare the ...
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... speak his mind ; Where flight is none from battle field , We blithely snatch the sword and shield ; Where hope is past , and hate is strong , The wretch's tongue is sharp and long ; Myself have seen , in wild despair , The feeble cat ...
... speak his mind ; Where flight is none from battle field , We blithely snatch the sword and shield ; Where hope is past , and hate is strong , The wretch's tongue is sharp and long ; Myself have seen , in wild despair , The feeble cat ...
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... speak In every flush that tints the student's cheek , As , wearied with the world , he seeks again The page of better times and greater men ; If with pure worship we your steps pursue , And youth , and health , and rest forget for you ...
... speak In every flush that tints the student's cheek , As , wearied with the world , he seeks again The page of better times and greater men ; If with pure worship we your steps pursue , And youth , and health , and rest forget for you ...
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... Speak ; and what we can , Delighted most to give delight , we will ; Though much of mystery yet to us remains . Virtue , I need not tell , when proved , and full Matured , inclines us up to God and heaven , By law of sweet compulsion ...
... Speak ; and what we can , Delighted most to give delight , we will ; Though much of mystery yet to us remains . Virtue , I need not tell , when proved , and full Matured , inclines us up to God and heaven , By law of sweet compulsion ...
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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.