The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, Esq. ...: Joan of ArcLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817 |
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... happy those " Who in the after days shall live when Time " Hath spoken , and the multitude of years " Taught wisdom to mankind ! unhappy France ! " Fiercer than evening wolves thy bitter foes " Rush o'er the land and desolate and kill ...
... happy those " Who in the after days shall live when Time " Hath spoken , and the multitude of years " Taught wisdom to mankind ! unhappy France ! " Fiercer than evening wolves thy bitter foes " Rush o'er the land and desolate and kill ...
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... " Of agony ; so neither night nor day " Could she find rest , but pin'd and pin'd away . " DEATH ! to the happy thou art terrible , " But how the wretched love to think of thee ! " O thou true comforter , the friend of all I 17.
... " Of agony ; so neither night nor day " Could she find rest , but pin'd and pin'd away . " DEATH ! to the happy thou art terrible , " But how the wretched love to think of thee ! " O thou true comforter , the friend of all I 17.
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... happy . " " Did that God , " " Cried Conrade , " form thy heart for happiness , " When Desolation royally careers " Over thy wretched country ? did that God " Form thee for Peace when Slaughter is abroad , " When her brooks run with ...
... happy . " " Did that God , " " Cried Conrade , " form thy heart for happiness , " When Desolation royally careers " Over thy wretched country ? did that God " Form thee for Peace when Slaughter is abroad , " When her brooks run with ...
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... happy . There are those " Who deem these thoughts the fancies of a mind " Strict beyond measure , and were well content , " If I should soften down my rigid nature " Even to inglorious ease , to honour me . " But pure of heart and high ...
... happy . There are those " Who deem these thoughts the fancies of a mind " Strict beyond measure , and were well content , " If I should soften down my rigid nature " Even to inglorious ease , to honour me . " But pure of heart and high ...
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... Happy : the memory of his prison'd years " Shall heighten all his joys , and his gray hairs " Go to the grave in peace . " " I would fain live " To see that day , " replied their aged host : " How would my heart leap to behold again ...
... Happy : the memory of his prison'd years " Shall heighten all his joys , and his gray hairs " Go to the grave in peace . " " I would fain live " To see that day , " replied their aged host : " How would my heart leap to behold again ...
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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.