Meditations and ContemplationsW.W. Woodward, 1809 - 371 pages |
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Page vi
... delighted by the Essay on Pope's Odyssey , written by the Rev. Mr. Spence , now prebendary of Durham ; to which elegant and judicious discourse Mr. Hervey often acknowledged that he " owed more of his improvement in style and ...
... delighted by the Essay on Pope's Odyssey , written by the Rev. Mr. Spence , now prebendary of Durham ; to which elegant and judicious discourse Mr. Hervey often acknowledged that he " owed more of his improvement in style and ...
Page viii
... DELIGHT of a glorious ETERNITY . How many have they transportingly entertained in their retirements and lonely walks ; and how often elevated them to those lofty heights , from whence they could look down on all things below In June ...
... DELIGHT of a glorious ETERNITY . How many have they transportingly entertained in their retirements and lonely walks ; and how often elevated them to those lofty heights , from whence they could look down on all things below In June ...
Page ix
... delights of good men's friendship excepted ) with an easy indifference ! A strain of the most serious piety and ardent de- votion runs through them , and they tend to inculcate some of the most distinguishing doctrines of the gospel ...
... delights of good men's friendship excepted ) with an easy indifference ! A strain of the most serious piety and ardent de- votion runs through them , and they tend to inculcate some of the most distinguishing doctrines of the gospel ...
Page xii
... delight by every one that adores the Son of God as the Lord our Righteousness . † These sermons and tracts are so valuable and excellent , that every one who reads them will lament that he did not enrich the library of Christianity with ...
... delight by every one that adores the Son of God as the Lord our Righteousness . † These sermons and tracts are so valuable and excellent , that every one who reads them will lament that he did not enrich the library of Christianity with ...
Page xxv
... delighted in it . With respect to his private capacity , he was never known to be in a passion . He lived as in heaven . No worldly con- cerns ( though he sometimes met with very trying ones ) ever affected him . His humility rendered ...
... delighted in it . With respect to his private capacity , he was never known to be in a passion . He lived as in heaven . No worldly con- cerns ( though he sometimes met with very trying ones ) ever affected him . His humility rendered ...
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Page 75 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 222 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
Page 70 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Page 351 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; " While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings, as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 112 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 137 - Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, have they not sped ? have they not divided the prey ; to every man a damsel or two ; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil...
Page 112 - Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth : there will I give thee my loves.
Page 89 - Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.
Page 337 - There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead.
Page 106 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible, Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.