Horne Lyrieae and Divine Songs ...: With a MemoirLittle, Brown & Company, 1854 - 348 pages |
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Page xxxviii
... tongue ; I would dress myself in it as my best raiment ; I would put it on upon my faith and hope , not so as entirely to hide them , but as an upper and more visible vesture , con- stantly to appear in among men . For our Chris- tian ...
... tongue ; I would dress myself in it as my best raiment ; I would put it on upon my faith and hope , not so as entirely to hide them , but as an upper and more visible vesture , con- stantly to appear in among men . For our Chris- tian ...
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... tongues . This profanation and debasement of so divine an art has tempted some weaker Christians to imagine that poetry and vice are naturally akin ; or , at least , that verse is fit only to recommend trifles , and entertain our looser ...
... tongues . This profanation and debasement of so divine an art has tempted some weaker Christians to imagine that poetry and vice are naturally akin ; or , at least , that verse is fit only to recommend trifles , and entertain our looser ...
Page lxxxiv
... tongue , he makes him laugh at destruction and famine , he brings the stones of the field into league with him , and makes the brute animals enter into a covenant of peace . ' Job , v . 21. When Job speaks of the grave , how melancholy ...
... tongue , he makes him laugh at destruction and famine , he brings the stones of the field into league with him , and makes the brute animals enter into a covenant of peace . ' Job , v . 21. When Job speaks of the grave , how melancholy ...
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... tongue ! When they speak of the dwelling - place of God , ' He inhabits eternity , and sits upon the throne of his holiness , in the midst of light inaccessible . ' When his holiness is mentioned , ' The heavens are not clean in his ...
... tongue ! When they speak of the dwelling - place of God , ' He inhabits eternity , and sits upon the throne of his holiness , in the midst of light inaccessible . ' When his holiness is mentioned , ' The heavens are not clean in his ...
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... tongue , Nor let thy thunders roar , Whilst the young notes and venturous song To worlds of glory soar . If thou my daring flight forbid , The muse folds up her wings ; Or at thy word her slender reed Attempts almighty things . Her ...
... tongue , Nor let thy thunders roar , Whilst the young notes and venturous song To worlds of glory soar . If thou my daring flight forbid , The muse folds up her wings ; Or at thy word her slender reed Attempts almighty things . Her ...
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Page lxxxvii - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 337 - Tis the voice of the Sluggard; I heard him complain, You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.' As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed, Turns his sides and his shoulders and his heavy head. 'A little more sleep, and a little more slumber...
Page xlix - As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Page 316 - LET dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so ; • Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature too.
Page lxxiii - Give me the wings of faith to rise Within the veil, and see The saints above, how great their joys, How bright their glories be. 2 Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears; They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears.
Page 320 - How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...
Page 345 - Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain ! But now the fair traveller's come to the west, His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best ; He paints the sky gay as he sinks to his rest, And foretells a bright rising again.
Page lxxxiii - Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up : it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker...
Page 129 - Sweet was the journey to the sky, The wondrous prophet tried ; " Climb up the mount," says God, and " die ; " The prophet climb'd and died.
Page 139 - Lord, what shall earth and ashes do? We would adore our Maker too! From sin and dust, to thee we cry, The Great, the Holy, and the High.