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... hope without confidence ; -what can be ex- pected from the inspiration of such feelings , but cold adulation , unmeaning boasts , empty predictions , and common place sen- timent ? A man way be a true poet , and yet , if , on the par ...
... hope without confidence ; -what can be ex- pected from the inspiration of such feelings , but cold adulation , unmeaning boasts , empty predictions , and common place sen- timent ? A man way be a true poet , and yet , if , on the par ...
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... hope's impatience quickened every eye ! " Never had man whom Heaven would heap with bliss More glad return , more happy hour than this . " Aloft on yonder bench , with arms dispread , My boy stood , shouting there his father's name ...
... hope's impatience quickened every eye ! " Never had man whom Heaven would heap with bliss More glad return , more happy hour than this . " Aloft on yonder bench , with arms dispread , My boy stood , shouting there his father's name ...
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... Hope urged me forward and my soul was strong . With winged speed we scaled the steep ascent , Nor seemed the labour difficult or long , Ere on the summit of the sacred hill Upraised I stood , where I might gaze my fill . Below me lay ...
... Hope urged me forward and my soul was strong . With winged speed we scaled the steep ascent , Nor seemed the labour difficult or long , Ere on the summit of the sacred hill Upraised I stood , where I might gaze my fill . Below me lay ...
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... hope looked on to its release . The light those happy Islanders enjoyed , Good messengers from Britain had conveyed ; ( Where might such bounty wiselier be employed ? ) One people with their teachers were they made , Their arts , their ...
... hope looked on to its release . The light those happy Islanders enjoyed , Good messengers from Britain had conveyed ; ( Where might such bounty wiselier be employed ? ) One people with their teachers were they made , Their arts , their ...
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... hope on the subject of the elucidation of the Egyptian hieroglyphics . Isis long ago declared , that no mortal had ever removed her veil ; and the impenetrable secret seems not likely to be di- vulged . One solitary fact has been ...
... hope on the subject of the elucidation of the Egyptian hieroglyphics . Isis long ago declared , that no mortal had ever removed her veil ; and the impenetrable secret seems not likely to be di- vulged . One solitary fact has been ...
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Page 412 - Will you be ready with all faithful diligence to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's word...
Page 172 - IT is certain by God's word, that children which are baptized, dying before they commit actual sin, are undoubtedly saved.
Page 533 - And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 588 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 410 - City, and holding a pure faith in the unity of the Spirit and in the bond of peace...
Page 381 - Nor aught else in the liquid mirror laves Its portraiture, but some inconstant star Between one foliaged lattice twinkling fair, Or, painted bird, sleeping beneath the moon, Or gorgeous insect floating motionless, Unconscious of the day, ere yet his wings Have spread their glories to the gaze of noon.
Page 387 - Die, he or justice must; unless for him Some other, able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction ; death for death.
Page 534 - And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
Page 359 - For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Page 45 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.