Our Christian Classics: Readings from the Best Divines with Notices Biographical and Critical, Volume 2J. Nesbet, 1857 - Christian literature, English |
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... tell him that he had put to the press his " Meditations on the Glory of Christ . " There was a moment's gleam in his languid eye , as he answered , I am glad to hear it : but , O brother Payne ! the long - wished- for day is come at ...
... tell him that he had put to the press his " Meditations on the Glory of Christ . " There was a moment's gleam in his languid eye , as he answered , I am glad to hear it : but , O brother Payne ! the long - wished- for day is come at ...
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... tell you , Such or such a thing was the occasion of it : - " By that I got my wound , " says one ; " And my disease , " says another : —would it not make you a little careful how or what you had to do with that thing or place ? Surely ...
... tell you , Such or such a thing was the occasion of it : - " By that I got my wound , " says one ; " And my disease , " says another : —would it not make you a little careful how or what you had to do with that thing or place ? Surely ...
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... tell , ye sons of light , Angels ; for ye behold Him , and with songs And choral symphonies , day without night , Circle His throne rejoicing ; ye in Heaven . On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first , Him last , Him midst ...
... tell , ye sons of light , Angels ; for ye behold Him , and with songs And choral symphonies , day without night , Circle His throne rejoicing ; ye in Heaven . On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first , Him last , Him midst ...
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... such of shape may seem Prince above princes ! gently hast thou told Thy message , which might else in telling wound , And in performing end us ; what besides 65 9 Of sorrow , and dejection , and despair , F 2 Adam and Michael,
... such of shape may seem Prince above princes ! gently hast thou told Thy message , which might else in telling wound , And in performing end us ; what besides 65 9 Of sorrow , and dejection , and despair , F 2 Adam and Michael,
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... telling of me what a godly man her father was , and what a strict and holy life he lived in his days , both in word and deeds . Where- fore these books , with the relation , though they did not reach my heart to awaken it about my soul ...
... telling of me what a godly man her father was , and what a strict and holy life he lived in his days , both in word and deeds . Where- fore these books , with the relation , though they did not reach my heart to awaken it about my soul ...
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Page 56 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime. Thou sun of this great world, both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater, sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st.
Page 57 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky, or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise...
Page 54 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Page 46 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
Page 51 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek die steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 45 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Page 51 - In consecrated earth And on the holy hearth The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns, and altars round A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat.
Page 134 - He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of Man : the field is the world ; the good seed are the children of the kingdom ; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels.
Page 48 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Page 55 - Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...