Stonehenge; or, The Romans in Britain, by Malachi Mouldy1842 |
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... death -violent - unrequited - death ! All the visions of youth - all the projects of ambition - all the endearments of friendship - to perish in a mo- ment ! No person to sympathize in his suf- ferings that thought was cruel ; no friend ...
... death -violent - unrequited - death ! All the visions of youth - all the projects of ambition - all the endearments of friendship - to perish in a mo- ment ! No person to sympathize in his suf- ferings that thought was cruel ; no friend ...
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... death , his only thought was how to demean himself as became a Roman ; and having , therefore , " screwed his courage to the sticking - place , " he stood before the Arch Druid with head erect , left foot advanced , and right hand ...
... death , his only thought was how to demean himself as became a Roman ; and having , therefore , " screwed his courage to the sticking - place , " he stood before the Arch Druid with head erect , left foot advanced , and right hand ...
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... death , and in some instances such an impatience of mortality , as might well shame the practical unbelief of professors of the more sublime mysteries of Christianity . The following exquisite lines may be con- sidered to contain a ...
... death , and in some instances such an impatience of mortality , as might well shame the practical unbelief of professors of the more sublime mysteries of Christianity . The following exquisite lines may be con- sidered to contain a ...
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... death's stillness how profound ! In after years , here the cathedral rose , Whose prelates now in yonder fane repose , Among the mighty of times past away ; For there her seat of rest religion chose , There still to Heaven ascends the ...
... death's stillness how profound ! In after years , here the cathedral rose , Whose prelates now in yonder fane repose , Among the mighty of times past away ; For there her seat of rest religion chose , There still to Heaven ascends the ...
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... death of his brother , and fearing the discouraging effect which it would have upon the army , assumed the royal banner , and his brother's crown and shield , and revenged his death in a decisive victory over Vespasian , whom our ...
... death of his brother , and fearing the discouraging effect which it would have upon the army , assumed the royal banner , and his brother's crown and shield , and revenged his death in a decisive victory over Vespasian , whom our ...
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Page 48 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things...
Page 196 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 205 - And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the Lord which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
Page 65 - Oxford ! one of which fell with him, Unwilling to outlive the good that did it ; The other, though unfinish'd, yet so famous, So excellent in art and still so rising, That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue. His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him ; For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little : And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died fearing God Kath.
Page 279 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Page 153 - Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head...
Page 138 - IN yonder grave a Druid lies, Where slowly winds the stealing wave ; The year's best sweets shall duteous rise To deck its poet's sylvan grave. In yon deep bed of whispering reeds His airy harp shall now be laid, That he, whose heart in sorrow bleeds, May love through life the soothing shade.
Page 97 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 218 - And on thy happy shore a temple still, Of small and delicate proportion, keeps, Upon a mild declivity of hill, Its memory of thee...
Page 115 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-inlaw against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.