Appletons' Journal, Issues 224-249

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D. Appleton and Company, 1873 - American literature

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Page 142 - Occidentals at the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth.
Page 151 - Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou were left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee. There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void : Thou— THOU art Being and Breath, And what THOU art may never be destroyed.
Page 283 - How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, and 1 Itremiah, Hi, J.
Page 80 - Then stay'd the fervid wheels, and in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things: One foot he centred, and the other turn'd Round through the vast profundity obscure, And said, ' Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O world!
Page 80 - The steadfast empyrean shook throughout, All but the throne itself of God. Full soon Among them he arrived; in his right hand Grasping ten thousand thunders, which he sent Before him, such as in their souls infixed Plagues...
Page 80 - In counterpoise, now ponders all events, Battles and realms: In these he put two weights, The sequel each of parting and of fight: The latter quick up flew, and kick'd the beam ; Which Gabriel spying, thus bespake the Fiend.
Page 79 - Of conflict ; over head the dismal hiss Of fiery darts in flaming volleys flew, And flying vaulted either host with fire.
Page 31 - Almighty, who will not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax, was graciously pleased to hear me.
Page 283 - She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks : Among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her : All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, They are become her enemies.
Page 79 - Spirits that live throughout Vital in every part, not as frail man In Entrails, Heart or Head, Liver or Reins, Cannot but by annihilating die; Nor in thir liquid texture mortal wound Receive, no more than can the fluid Air...

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