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Page 166
... prove his lowest title was a wit ? ‡ Though purer flames thy hallow'd zeal inspire Than ere were kindled at the Muse's fire ; Thee , mitred CHESTER ! § all the Nine shall boast ; And is not JOHNSON ours ? himself an host . * Then Bishop ...
... prove his lowest title was a wit ? ‡ Though purer flames thy hallow'd zeal inspire Than ere were kindled at the Muse's fire ; Thee , mitred CHESTER ! § all the Nine shall boast ; And is not JOHNSON ours ? himself an host . * Then Bishop ...
Page 172
... prove , That they should merit less , or you less love ? Yet while we claim the sympathy divine , Which makes , O man , the woes of others thine ; While her fair triumphs swell the modish page , She drives the sterner virtues from the ...
... prove , That they should merit less , or you less love ? Yet while we claim the sympathy divine , Which makes , O man , the woes of others thine ; While her fair triumphs swell the modish page , She drives the sterner virtues from the ...
Page 197
... prove the sun . NUMBERS the Hebrews ' names declare In due arrangement , just and fair : The nomenclature so exact , Not deists can disprove the fact . * Nadab and Abihu . While DEUTERONOMY repeats That law of which the other treats 0 3 ...
... prove the sun . NUMBERS the Hebrews ' names declare In due arrangement , just and fair : The nomenclature so exact , Not deists can disprove the fact . * Nadab and Abihu . While DEUTERONOMY repeats That law of which the other treats 0 3 ...
Page 204
... proves more clearly noon is bright , Than my plain WORD presents to view , All that man needs to KNOW or DO . Wrapt up in majesty divine , The rest is not his care but mine . This the best knowledge man receives , " I know that my ...
... proves more clearly noon is bright , Than my plain WORD presents to view , All that man needs to KNOW or DO . Wrapt up in majesty divine , The rest is not his care but mine . This the best knowledge man receives , " I know that my ...
Page 206
... posterity . Thus , though his pardon mercy seals , Sin's temporal results he feels . God with offence will have no part , Ev'n in the man of his own heart . All sadly serves to prove our fall From purity original 206 KING DAVID .
... posterity . Thus , though his pardon mercy seals , Sin's temporal results he feels . God with offence will have no part , Ev'n in the man of his own heart . All sadly serves to prove our fall From purity original 206 KING DAVID .
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1st Cour Abner Araspes Babylon behold Belshazzar BIRTHA Bishop BONNER bless blest bliss boast bold bon-ton breast bright Chaldea charms crown crown'd Daniel dare Darius DAVID AND GOLIATH death decree deeds delight divine dread E'en e'er eternal Euphrates ev'ry fair faith fame fancy fate fear feel flame FLORIO fond glory God's grace hand hear heart Heav'n holy honour hope human humble IANTHE IANTHE's impart Israel JOCHEBED king live Lord lov'd lyre Mede mercy mighty mind moral Muse ne'er never nymph o'er passion peace Phar Pharaoh Pharnaces Philistia pleasure pow'r praise prayer pride prince promis'd prophet reign sacred sage saint Saul scene shades sight song SORANUS soul spirit sweet tale taste tears tell thee thine things thou hast thought trembling truth Twas vex'd virgin train virtue wealth Whate'er wisdom word youth
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Page 247 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 79 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Page 135 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Page 391 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 159 - A drop, dissevered from the boundless sea ; A moment, parted from eternity ; A pilgrim, panting for the rest to come ; An exile, anxious for his native home.
Page 84 - Not circumscrib'd by time not fix'd to space, Confin'd to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, In dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee...
Page 6 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Page 10 - O sad estate Of human wretchedness ! so weak is man, So ignorant and blind, that did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruin'd at our own request. Too well thou know'st, my child, the stern decree Of Egypt's cruel king, hard-hearted Pharaoh ; " That every male of Hebrew mother born
Page 173 - Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; O let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. To spread large bounties though we wish in vain, Yet all may shun the guilt of giving pain...
Page 317 - FLORIO knew the WORLD ; that science Sets sense and learning at defiance ; He thought the World to him was known, Whereas he only knew the Tovm ; In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set — Mankind.