The Dayspring from on HighHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 279 pages |
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ANCREN RIWLE angels APOCALYPSE Apostle April AUBREY DE VERE August AUGUSTINE BACON beautiful behold BLESSED HENRY SUSO BREVIARY bright CARDINAL NEWMAN CHAUCER child Christ Church CORINTHIANS CRASHAW creatures cross crown DANTE dear death December divine doth E. R. SILL earth EDMUND SPENSER eternal eyes F. W. H. MYERS FABER faith Father fear February flowers FRANCIS DE SALES give glory God's gold golden grace hand hath heart heaven heavenly holy HYMN January Jesus JOHN JOHN xix July June KENELM DIGBY KING ALFRED'S BOETHIUS light live LONGFELLOW look Lord LUKE March Mary MATTHEW mercy mind mother never night November o'er October peace PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON poor praise prayer PSALM PURGATORY RAVIGNAN rejoice rich Rome saints September sing song sorrow soul SOUTHWELL spirit suffer sweet T. W. PARSONS thee thine things thou art thou hast thought tree unto Virgin virtue words
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Page 248 - And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead. Then cold and hot and moist and dry In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey.
Page 130 - I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish that they will control the usual current of the passions or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. But if I may even flatter myself that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended...
Page 200 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Page 132 - They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think ; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
Page 7 - I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great Ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved; in which the world And all her train were hurled.
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Page 222 - Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know, that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Page 224 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 54 - AND is there care in heaven ? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is : else much more wretched were the case Of men than beasts. But O ! th...
Page 234 - And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb, as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.