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... Earth , - How small the number of the Righteous ! Where is the Peace of Jesus Christ to be found ? Do the Accomplishments of Nature increase the Enormity of our guilt ? Fashionable Sins Exposed , If Christianity is in the Heart , it ...
... Earth , - How small the number of the Righteous ! Where is the Peace of Jesus Christ to be found ? Do the Accomplishments of Nature increase the Enormity of our guilt ? Fashionable Sins Exposed , If Christianity is in the Heart , it ...
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... earth were created , to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away . Events , which short- sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes had been ordained on his account . For his sake ...
... earth were created , to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away . Events , which short- sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes had been ordained on his account . For his sake ...
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... earth ; while grief , terror , and even despair , lost their power of excite- ment , and all had sunk under the languor of bodily as well as mental exhaustion . Not a breath of air disturbed the stillness of the atmosphere ; not the ...
... earth ; while grief , terror , and even despair , lost their power of excite- ment , and all had sunk under the languor of bodily as well as mental exhaustion . Not a breath of air disturbed the stillness of the atmosphere ; not the ...
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... earth- quake ; but , extended on the beach , and out of the reach of all buildings , they thought themselves com- paratively secure from real danger . A low rustling noise was soon heard , and gradually but rapidly in- creased to the ...
... earth- quake ; but , extended on the beach , and out of the reach of all buildings , they thought themselves com- paratively secure from real danger . A low rustling noise was soon heard , and gradually but rapidly in- creased to the ...
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... earth for bearing some colour of its original ? Long , long will I remember your features , and bless God that I leave my noble deliverer united with- " She stopped short - her eyes filled with tears . She hastily wiped them , and ...
... earth for bearing some colour of its original ? Long , long will I remember your features , and bless God that I leave my noble deliverer united with- " She stopped short - her eyes filled with tears . She hastily wiped them , and ...
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Página 205 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Página 238 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Página 245 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Página 232 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Página 218 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Página 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Página 253 - As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Página 253 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Página 250 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father." The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her, — When, oh ! too strong for human hand. The tempest gathered o'er her.
Página 217 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...