The SpectatorPutnam, 1856 |
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... sight , from whom no secrets are concealed . Again , there are many virtues which want an opportunity of exerting and shewing themselves in actions . Every virtue requires time and place , a proper object , and a fit conjuncture of ...
... sight , from whom no secrets are concealed . Again , there are many virtues which want an opportunity of exerting and shewing themselves in actions . Every virtue requires time and place , a proper object , and a fit conjuncture of ...
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... sight which I lately met with at the opera . As I was standing in the hinder part of the box , I took notice of a little cluster of women sitting together in a One of them was the prettiest coloured hoods that I ever saw . blue ...
... sight which I lately met with at the opera . As I was standing in the hinder part of the box , I took notice of a little cluster of women sitting together in a One of them was the prettiest coloured hoods that I ever saw . blue ...
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... sight of Italy , because the action proposed to be celebrated was that of his settling himself in Latium . But because it was necessary for the reader to know what had happened to him in the taking of Troy , and in the pre- ceding parts ...
... sight of Italy , because the action proposed to be celebrated was that of his settling himself in Latium . But because it was necessary for the reader to know what had happened to him in the taking of Troy , and in the pre- ceding parts ...
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... sight , Ye gods who rule the regions of the night , Ye gliding ghosts , permit me to relate The mystic wonders of your silent state . DRYDEN . Every circumstance in their justness and delicacy adapted As the poet very much excels I HAVE ...
... sight , Ye gods who rule the regions of the night , Ye gliding ghosts , permit me to relate The mystic wonders of your silent state . DRYDEN . Every circumstance in their justness and delicacy adapted As the poet very much excels I HAVE ...
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... sight receiv'd Beatitude past utterance : on his right The radiant image of his glory sat , His only Son ; on earth he first beheld Our two first parents , yet the only two Of mankind , in the happy garden plac'd , Reaping immortal ...
... sight receiv'd Beatitude past utterance : on his right The radiant image of his glory sat , His only Son ; on earth he first beheld Our two first parents , yet the only two Of mankind , in the happy garden plac'd , Reaping immortal ...
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Page 68 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 152 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Page 455 - I have set the Lord always before me: Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: My flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; l Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life: In thy presence is fulness of joy ; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 394 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 70 - Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Page 155 - So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of lustre from the brook, in memory, Or monument to ages ; and thereon Offer sweet-smelling gums, and fruits, and flowers.
Page 645 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 394 - Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread, My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, For thou, O Lord, art with me still ; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade.
Page 139 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 102 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.