The Rhode-Island Literary Repository, Volume 1Isaac Bailey Robinson and Howland, 1814 |
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... seems to have possessed his mind for some time previous to his last cruise . Just before sailing , he writes to his sister : " When you shall hear that I have ended my earthly career , that I only exist in the kind remembrance of my ...
... seems to have possessed his mind for some time previous to his last cruise . Just before sailing , he writes to his sister : " When you shall hear that I have ended my earthly career , that I only exist in the kind remembrance of my ...
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... seems to perish . It becomes a mass of putrefaction , and like the body laid in the grave . But there is a delicate , almost imperceptible germ which survives , and presently assumes a new and much more beautiful form . Can we doubt but ...
... seems to perish . It becomes a mass of putrefaction , and like the body laid in the grave . But there is a delicate , almost imperceptible germ which survives , and presently assumes a new and much more beautiful form . Can we doubt but ...
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... seem to throw some feeble rays of light upon them , and to offer some foundation , on which the mind , exhausted by its efforts to conceive them , can rest . - Look round thee then , O man ! who thinkest that the dead cannot be raised ...
... seem to throw some feeble rays of light upon them , and to offer some foundation , on which the mind , exhausted by its efforts to conceive them , can rest . - Look round thee then , O man ! who thinkest that the dead cannot be raised ...
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... seems also to be intimately connected with our accountable state in this world , and with our future judgment . In this view , it will have the most important moral influence upon the conduct of mankind . If the soul were not to be re ...
... seems also to be intimately connected with our accountable state in this world , and with our future judgment . In this view , it will have the most important moral influence upon the conduct of mankind . If the soul were not to be re ...
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... Seems sacred as sorrow , and cheerful as day ; Thus break forth the sunshine , enshrouded erewhile , And laughs through the showers that it chases away . Forgive me , my fair , if too selfish I seem , And view thy commotion of soul with ...
... Seems sacred as sorrow , and cheerful as day ; Thus break forth the sunshine , enshrouded erewhile , And laughs through the showers that it chases away . Forgive me , my fair , if too selfish I seem , And view thy commotion of soul with ...
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admiration Æneas ancient appear Arminian attention beauty BENJAMIN WEST called Carthage cause Champe character charms Checkley christian church command considered death Dido divine Doctor Morse dulce domum earth effect endeavour excited fame fancy feel genius Giaour give glory Hannah Adams heart heaven honour hope human interest Jedediah Morse John Calvin justice Klopstock labour lady learned letter LITERARY REPOSITORY Lord Lord Byron Madame de Stael mankind ment mind Miss Adams moral motives nature never o'er object observed opinion original passions perhaps person Petrarch pleasure poem poet poetical poetry possessed present principles publick Pygmalion readers reason received religion respect Rhode-Island ship song soul spirit sublime superiour talents taste tears thee thing thou thought tion truth virtue whole WILLIAM HENRY ALLEN wish youth
Popular passages
Page 52 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Page 114 - Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace Our parting was fu' tender ; And pledging aft to meet again, We tore oursels asunder ; But, Oh ! fell Death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early ! Now green's the sod, and cauld's the clay, That wraps my Highland Mary...
Page 114 - O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace Our parting was fu...
Page 120 - For, like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by Himself to be God and Lord, so are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion to say, there be Three Gods or Three Lords.
Page 196 - Yet in the whole — who paused to look again, Saw more than marks the crowd of vulgar men — They gaze and marvel how — and still confess That thus it is, but why they cannot guess.
Page 137 - The sting she nourished for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain...
Page 223 - ... when dead. If, however, we consider even the prejudiced anecdotes furnished us by his enemies, we may perceive in them traces of amiable and lofty character sufficient to awaken sympathy for his fate, and respect for his memory. We find that, amidst all the harassing cares and ferocious passions of constant warfare, he was alive to the softer feelings of connubial love and paternal tenderness, and to the generous sentiment of friendship. The captivity of his "beloved wife and only son...
Page 393 - And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
Page 254 - Who bow'd so low the knee ? By gazing on thyself grown blind, Thou taught'st the rest to see. With might unquestion'd, • — power to save, Thine only gift hath been the grave, To those that worshipp'd thee; Nor till thy fall could mortals guess Ambition's less than littleness!
Page 256 - All Evil Spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the heart To see thine own unstrung; To think that God's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean!