The National Magazine, 1. köideAbel Stevens, James Floy Carlton & Phillips, 1852 |
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... look in at thy gate . Lost one ! in sleep we rise Into thy track , and thy receding light Pursue , till , pausing at ... looks in the face of death , And the wild mien is still . No paths of sense may wile The yearning heart . It asks ...
... look in at thy gate . Lost one ! in sleep we rise Into thy track , and thy receding light Pursue , till , pausing at ... looks in the face of death , And the wild mien is still . No paths of sense may wile The yearning heart . It asks ...
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... look on " The olive - grove of Academe , Plato's retirement , where the Attic bird Thrills her thick - warbled notes the summer long . " Even on the hill where Paul stood was the court - house of the council ; here , also , were two ...
... look on " The olive - grove of Academe , Plato's retirement , where the Attic bird Thrills her thick - warbled notes the summer long . " Even on the hill where Paul stood was the court - house of the council ; here , also , were two ...
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... look never to be forgotten ; we meet with none of that grim humor which laughs like an earthquake and ends in sorrowful gloom . On the whole , deep tenderness and affec- tion are most conspicuous , often express- ing themselves with a ...
... look never to be forgotten ; we meet with none of that grim humor which laughs like an earthquake and ends in sorrowful gloom . On the whole , deep tenderness and affec- tion are most conspicuous , often express- ing themselves with a ...
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... look before , nor look behind , But lying mute , with wave - dipp'd hand , float on . It was not always thus . My brethren , see This oar - mark'd , quivering palm , the bitter sign Of youth's mad struggle with the wave that drifts ...
... look before , nor look behind , But lying mute , with wave - dipp'd hand , float on . It was not always thus . My brethren , see This oar - mark'd , quivering palm , the bitter sign Of youth's mad struggle with the wave that drifts ...
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... look which time and hard work have given me , and feel disposed to sigh at the change in my condition . I could have wished to have traced in detail my eventful history after that memo- rable morning , and to have sketched the various ...
... look which time and hard work have given me , and feel disposed to sigh at the change in my condition . I could have wished to have traced in detail my eventful history after that memo- rable morning , and to have sketched the various ...
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Page 253 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 111 - Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, Therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, And I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 112 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 112 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud ! for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked...
Page 494 - Sir, she had read the old romances, and had got into her head the fantastical notion that a woman of spirit should use her lover like a dog. So, sir, at first she told me that I rode too fast, and she could not keep up with me ; and, when I rode a little slower, she passed me, and complained that I lagged behind. I was not to be made the slave of caprice ; and I resolved to begin as I meant to end. I therefore pushed on briskly, till I was fairly out of her sight. The road lay between two hedges,...
Page 112 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Page 28 - And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Page 51 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 471 - The Lord bless you, and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace, both now and evermore.
Page 99 - The poor folk flocked from far and near ; The great barn was full as it could hold Of women and children, and young and old. Then when he saw it could hold no more Bishop Hatto he made fast the door ; And while for mercy on Christ they call, He set fire to the barn and burnt them all. " I' faith, 'tis an excellent bonfire ! " quoth he, " And the country is greatly obliged to me, For ridding it in these times forlorn, Of rats, that only consume the corn.