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... bright needles with delicate speed . I was alone idle , seeming to admire , with earnest attention , the slight firmness of an unfinished purse , intended for me ; though , perhaps , I could not help looking more at the.
... bright needles with delicate speed . I was alone idle , seeming to admire , with earnest attention , the slight firmness of an unfinished purse , intended for me ; though , perhaps , I could not help looking more at the.
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... bright ver- dure beneath . She had seemed a simple girl before : her character now seemed exalted ; -she had been loved ( and respected too ) before ; she was now looked up to as a superior creature . All her actions had something ...
... bright ver- dure beneath . She had seemed a simple girl before : her character now seemed exalted ; -she had been loved ( and respected too ) before ; she was now looked up to as a superior creature . All her actions had something ...
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... always last . Since his return home , he held himself constantly prepared for some change ; he thought that all his bright visions seemed fa- like ding ; that they were like the fanciful and glitter- 38 A MERCHANT'S SON .
... always last . Since his return home , he held himself constantly prepared for some change ; he thought that all his bright visions seemed fa- like ding ; that they were like the fanciful and glitter- 38 A MERCHANT'S SON .
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... bright Than the sapphire's light , Where love's purest flame is shining . " 6 No , " said Duncan to himself , as Jeanie ceased singing , " Gerald has not changed ; he is detained by some duty . I am unjust , I will not doubt you , my ...
... bright Than the sapphire's light , Where love's purest flame is shining . " 6 No , " said Duncan to himself , as Jeanie ceased singing , " Gerald has not changed ; he is detained by some duty . I am unjust , I will not doubt you , my ...
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... o ' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon , Where bright beaming summers exalt the fume ; per- Far dearer to me yon lone glen o ' green brechan , Wi ' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom A MERCHANT'S SON , 55.
... o ' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon , Where bright beaming summers exalt the fume ; per- Far dearer to me yon lone glen o ' green brechan , Wi ' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom A MERCHANT'S SON , 55.
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Page 229 - O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength : before I go hence, and be no more seen.
Page 154 - Lie not ; but let thy heart be true to God, Thy mouth to it, thy actions to them both. Cowards tell lies, and those that fear the rod; The stormy working soul spits lies and froth. Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie. A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.
Page 109 - Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked...
Page 207 - Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX. TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY. LADY, that in the prime of earliest youth Wisely hast shunned the broad way and the green, And with those few art eminently seen, That labour up the hill of heavenly truth, The better part with Mary and with Ruth Chosen thou hast ; and they that overween, And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen, No anger find in thee, but pity and ruth.
Page 97 - Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
Page 64 - Now, there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was the Christ...
Page x - Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who thre,w Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew The breath which made him wretched : yet he knew How to make madness beautiful, and cast O'er erring deeds and thoughts a heavenly hue Of words, like sunbeams, dazzling as they past The eyes, which o'er them shed tears feelingly and fast.
Page 193 - Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Page 122 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 28 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.