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Page vii
... give its author immortality . " By this time the wheel of providence brought about the king's happy restoration , and there began a new world , and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters , and out of a confused chaos ...
... give its author immortality . " By this time the wheel of providence brought about the king's happy restoration , and there began a new world , and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters , and out of a confused chaos ...
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... give immediate delight : and often , in my solitary walks through this noble city , more quiet to me than the retirement of academic bowers , I shall in- dulge the hope that this volume may , perchance , be opened by some young man who ...
... give immediate delight : and often , in my solitary walks through this noble city , more quiet to me than the retirement of academic bowers , I shall in- dulge the hope that this volume may , perchance , be opened by some young man who ...
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... give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit , yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought , to actuate a passion , to employ and hallow a fancy . Epistle Dedicatory to Taylor's Life of Christ . ON PRAYER . PRAYER is ...
... give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit , yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought , to actuate a passion , to employ and hallow a fancy . Epistle Dedicatory to Taylor's Life of Christ . ON PRAYER . PRAYER is ...
Page xvi
... gives light to a cock , and calls up the lark to mattins , and by and by gilds the fringes of a cloud , and peeps over the eastern hills , thrust- ing out his golden horns like those which decked the brows of Moses when he was forced to ...
... gives light to a cock , and calls up the lark to mattins , and by and by gilds the fringes of a cloud , and peeps over the eastern hills , thrust- ing out his golden horns like those which decked the brows of Moses when he was forced to ...
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... gives green turf and brambles to bind upon our graves . † It is a mighty change that is made by the death of every person , and it is visible to us who are alive . Reckon but from the spritefulness of youth and the fair cheeks and the ...
... gives green turf and brambles to bind upon our graves . † It is a mighty change that is made by the death of every person , and it is visible to us who are alive . Reckon but from the spritefulness of youth and the fair cheeks and the ...
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Page 325 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the sea, One of the mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen music, Liberty...
Page 262 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 290 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of...
Page 45 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 277 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 281 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 327 - A honey tongue, a heart of gall Is fancy's Spring but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle and thy posies Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee and be thy love.
Page 90 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 16 - The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise an
Page 97 - ... heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield...