Helen of the Glen: A Tale of the Scotch CovenantersR. Carter, 1841 - 113 páginas |
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Agnes Ayrshire Bible blood bosom brother brown heath carabine charac Christian comfort companions conscience countenance darkness dear death districts of Scotland dwelling eternal everlasting love faithful Father in heaven fear forget friends Glasgow glen grave habit of industry hand happy hath hear heard heart heath Helen and William holy hope irreligion James Thomson Jesus Christ lamb liam look Lord Loudon-hill loved island minister of religion moorish districts moorland morning mother mountain ness never forsake old farmer old shepherd orphans peace peat burned persecution piety pious pray Redeemer religion religious conversation remember ROBERT POLLOK Sabbath salvation servant sheep sinner sister soldier solitary soul strag streams sweet sword tears tender thee Thom Thomson thou tremble trust unto voice walk waters wept wicked widow of Cleughhead wild William crossed words wrath Wrathburn young reader youth
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Página 9 - For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Página 33 - He brings, and round about him ; nor from Hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place : now Conscience wakes Despair That slumbered ; wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue.
Página 51 - The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn ; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Página 7 - Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so is the Son of man lifted up; that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but have everlasting life.
Página 65 - Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true — A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew, And in that Charter reads with sparkling eyes Her title to a treasure in the skies.
Página 57 - Heaven opens in their bosoms : but how rare, Ah me ! that magnanimity, how rare ! What hero, like the man who stands himself; Who dares to meet his naked heart alone ; Who hears, intrepid, the full charge it brings, Resolv'd to silence future murmurs there ? The coward flies- and, flying, is undone.
Página 56 - Or hath any one observed seed-time and harvest ; and cold and heat ; and summer and winter ; and day and night cease from the earth ? ' Hath he spoken it, and shall he not do it ? Hath he said it, and shall he not bring it to pass ?' The Son of God will not say that the Father is not true. In Eden, the voice of God's truth and mercy was heard saying, that ' the seed of the woman should bruise the head of the serpent.
Página 33 - Upon himself; horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The Hell within him ; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place...