The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, Esq. ...: Joan of ArcLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817 |
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... amid what painful cares My solace was in this ; and tho ' to me There is no music in the hollowness Of common praise , yet well content am I Now to look back upon my youth's green prime , Nor idly , nor unprofitably past , Imping in ...
... amid what painful cares My solace was in this ; and tho ' to me There is no music in the hollowness Of common praise , yet well content am I Now to look back upon my youth's green prime , Nor idly , nor unprofitably past , Imping in ...
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... Amid these wilds " Often to summer pasture have I driven " The flock ; and well I know these mountain wilds , " And every bosom'd vale , and valley stream " Is dear to memory . I have laid me down " Beside yon valley stream , that up ...
... Amid these wilds " Often to summer pasture have I driven " The flock ; and well I know these mountain wilds , " And every bosom'd vale , and valley stream " Is dear to memory . I have laid me down " Beside yon valley stream , that up ...
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... amid the loveliest scenes " Of unpolluted nature . Sweet it was " As the white mists of morning roll'd away " To see the mountain's wooded heights appear " Dark in the early dawn , and mark its slope " With gorse - flowers glowing , as ...
... amid the loveliest scenes " Of unpolluted nature . Sweet it was " As the white mists of morning roll'd away " To see the mountain's wooded heights appear " Dark in the early dawn , and mark its slope " With gorse - flowers glowing , as ...
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Robert Southey. " Amid the village playmates of my youth " Was one whom riper years approved a friend . " A gentle maid was my poor Madelon , " I loved her as a sister , and long time “ Her undivided tenderness possess'd , " Till that a ...
Robert Southey. " Amid the village playmates of my youth " Was one whom riper years approved a friend . " A gentle maid was my poor Madelon , " I loved her as a sister , and long time “ Her undivided tenderness possess'd , " Till that a ...
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... amid the sunshine carolling " So full of joy , that to the mourner's ear " More mournfully than dirge or passing bell , " His joyful carol came , and made us feel " That of the multitude of beings , none " But man was wretched . " Then ...
... amid the sunshine carolling " So full of joy , that to the mourner's ear " More mournfully than dirge or passing bell , " His joyful carol came , and made us feel " That of the multitude of beings , none " But man was wretched . " Then ...
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Page 172 - Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee ; and before thou earnest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Page 173 - Thou therefore gird up thy loins and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee. Be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
Page 249 - Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of gdats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Page 249 - And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God ; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come ; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
Page 249 - Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; 18 that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Page 174 - O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions, unto the man that hath nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things: yea, unto him that is yet able to receive meat!
Page 238 - There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen : The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Page 173 - Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Page 251 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Page 242 - Dieu , je te prie que tu fasses aujourd'hui pour La Hire autant « que tu voudrois que La Hire fît pour toi , s'il étoit Dieu et que tu « fusses La Hire ! — Et il cuidoit très-bien prier et dire.