Stories Descriptive of the Isle of WightGeneral Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union and Church Book Society, 1859 - 203 páginas |
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... rock , amid which innumerable creepers twine their fantastic garlands ; and above frowns the stupendous barrier of gray cliffs , from which the giant masses have been torn . It is this desolate but most romantic tract , which separates ...
... rock , amid which innumerable creepers twine their fantastic garlands ; and above frowns the stupendous barrier of gray cliffs , from which the giant masses have been torn . It is this desolate but most romantic tract , which separates ...
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... rocks - some bare and rugged ; others adorned with the rich , waving tracery of climb- ing plants . This is the usual meeting - place of the village children , and on the afternoon of which I speak numbers of little forms were clustered ...
... rocks - some bare and rugged ; others adorned with the rich , waving tracery of climb- ing plants . This is the usual meeting - place of the village children , and on the afternoon of which I speak numbers of little forms were clustered ...
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... rocks , completely festooned with ivy and the wild clematis , she stood watching the de- clining sun , whose last rays seemed to shed a halo around the little church ; while the lofty hills , which rose immediately in its rear , were ...
... rocks , completely festooned with ivy and the wild clematis , she stood watching the de- clining sun , whose last rays seemed to shed a halo around the little church ; while the lofty hills , which rose immediately in its rear , were ...
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... rocks , piled in an infinite variety of fantastic forms , which , by the aid of imagination , may be readily converted into shattered columns , pinnacles , and towers , to which indeed , in some instances , they bear a rude resemblance ...
... rocks , piled in an infinite variety of fantastic forms , which , by the aid of imagination , may be readily converted into shattered columns , pinnacles , and towers , to which indeed , in some instances , they bear a rude resemblance ...
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... ness , is striking in the extreme : here all is wild and savage grandeur ; the tall , bare rocks stand black and grim , guarding the narrow pass ; and the very rivulet which trickles through the 32 THE LITTLE ZOOPHYTE GATHERERS .
... ness , is striking in the extreme : here all is wild and savage grandeur ; the tall , bare rocks stand black and grim , guarding the narrow pass ; and the very rivulet which trickles through the 32 THE LITTLE ZOOPHYTE GATHERERS .
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Página 22 - Christ is risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Página 22 - For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us : — Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Página 98 - LIGHTEN our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord ; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night ; for the love of thy only Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Página 97 - It ceased; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook, In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Página 9 - Bring flowers to the shrine where we kneel in prayer, They are nature's offering, their place is there ! They speak of hope to the fainting heart, With a voice of promise they come and part, They sleep in dust through the wintry hours, They break forth in glory — bring flowers, bright flowers ! THE CRUSADER'S RETURN. "Alas! the mother that him bare, If she had been in presence there, In his wan cheeks and sunburnt hair She had not known her child.
Página 167 - Perchance that little brook shall flow The bulwark of some mighty realm, Bear navies to and fro With monarchs at their helm. Or canst thou guess, -how far away Some sister nymph beside her urn...
Página 168 - Nurses her store, with thine to blend When many a moor and glen are past, Then in the wide sea end Their spotless lives at last ? Even so, the course of prayer who knows ? It springs in silence where it will, Springs out of sight, and flows At first a lonely rill: But streams shall meet it by and by From thousand sympathetic hearts, Together swelling high Their chant of many parts.
Página 109 - Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Make our earth an Eden, Like the heaven above.
Página 168 - What rocks she shall o'erleap or rend, How far in ocean's swell Her freshening billows send ? Perchance that little brook shall flow The bulwark of some mighty realm, Bear navies to and fro With monarchs at their helm.
Página 190 - COME unto me, all ye that travail and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you.