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Page 137 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Page 250 - He wedded a wife of richest dower, Who lived for fashion, as he for power. Yet oft, in his marble hearth's bright glow, He watched a picture come and go; And sweet Maud...
Page 124 - Seeking to find the old familiar faces. Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert not thou born in my father's dwelling? So might we talk of the old familiar faces. How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Page 124 - Built of the wreck of stranded ships, The flames would leap and then expire. And, as their...
Page 171 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
Page 212 - This would be an adaptation to actual business of the spiritual truth that " to him that hath shall be given ; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he seemeth to have.
Page 124 - We spake of many a vanished scene, Of what we once had thought and said...
Page 47 - Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works : 15 Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.
Page 33 - Charity suffereth long, and is kind; is not easily provoked; thinketh no evil . . . beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Page 91 - Life is a passing shadow, says the Scripture. Is it the shadow of a tower, of a tree ? A shadow that prevails for a while ? No, it is the shadow of a bird in his flight — away flies the bird and there is neither bird nor shadow.