Evenings in Autumn: On the blindness of Homer, Ossian, and Milton. The Valley of the Rye, continued. On the character and writings of Sir Thomas Browne. Critical remarks on "The judgment, a vision", a poem by Mr. Hillhouse of New York. Remarks on social worship - the village churchLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822 |
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... prayers prevail ! And when in future times some pilgrim hoar , Wandering , shall reach this sea - encircled shore , And ask what mortal now , with heavenly fire , Strikes with his skilful hand the warbling lyre , What dulcet voice is ...
... prayers prevail ! And when in future times some pilgrim hoar , Wandering , shall reach this sea - encircled shore , And ask what mortal now , with heavenly fire , Strikes with his skilful hand the warbling lyre , What dulcet voice is ...
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... prayer indeed , and for reasons too not merely selfish , that when I leave this sweet sequestered valley , thou mayest be the companion of my steps ; and if providence permit , need I say , what added gratification it would give me , if ...
... prayer indeed , and for reasons too not merely selfish , that when I leave this sweet sequestered valley , thou mayest be the companion of my steps ; and if providence permit , need I say , what added gratification it would give me , if ...
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... prayers , or the place wherein we make them ; or that a resolved con- science may not adore her Creator any where , especially in places devoted to his service ; where , if their devotions offend him , mine may please him , if their's ...
... prayers , or the place wherein we make them ; or that a resolved con- science may not adore her Creator any where , especially in places devoted to his service ; where , if their devotions offend him , mine may please him , if their's ...
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... prayers by rightly ordering mine own . " Having thus far expressed his faith on the topics of natural and revealed religion , our author now proceeds , in a strain of augmenting energy and eloquence , to make us acquainted with his ...
... prayers by rightly ordering mine own . " Having thus far expressed his faith on the topics of natural and revealed religion , our author now proceeds , in a strain of augmenting energy and eloquence , to make us acquainted with his ...
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... prayer For guilty man . Redundant down his neck His locks rolled graceful , as they waved , of old , Upon the mournful breeze of Calvary . The close of this passage , as included in the last six lines , is conceived and executed in a ...
... prayer For guilty man . Redundant down his neck His locks rolled graceful , as they waved , of old , Upon the mournful breeze of Calvary . The close of this passage , as included in the last six lines , is conceived and executed in a ...
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Page 271 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 282 - The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 36 - In the first rank of these did Zimri' stand, 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 190 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, O sun ! thy everlasting light ! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave ; but thou thyself movest aloive.
Page 278 - To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when morn Purples the east. Still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few.
Page 270 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 208 - There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me I am the image of God, as well as Scripture : he that understands not thus much, hath not his introduction or first lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet of man.
Page 205 - I do embrace it; for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer.
Page 270 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Page 95 - Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick ; but I, that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so ; and, considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.