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... Church , Ebbo implored him to pray that he might not be left behind long in purgatory . " Friedel , " he said , clasping his brother's hand , " is even like the holy Sebastian , or Maurice ; but I — I was O father , will it be never ...
... Church , Ebbo implored him to pray that he might not be left behind long in purgatory . " Friedel , " he said , clasping his brother's hand , " is even like the holy Sebastian , or Maurice ; but I — I was O father , will it be never ...
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... church of holy peace , and a cell for a priest , who may watch over the bridge ward , and offer the holy sacrifice for the departed of either house . There will we place our gentle Friedel to be the first to guard the peace of the ford ...
... church of holy peace , and a cell for a priest , who may watch over the bridge ward , and offer the holy sacrifice for the departed of either house . There will we place our gentle Friedel to be the first to guard the peace of the ford ...
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... church of Encisheim , as a witness and warning of the plagues that hang over us ? But no , nothing will quicken them from their sloth and drunkenness till the foe are at their doors ; and , if a man arise of different mould , with some ...
... church of Encisheim , as a witness and warning of the plagues that hang over us ? But no , nothing will quicken them from their sloth and drunkenness till the foe are at their doors ; and , if a man arise of different mould , with some ...
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... church on Sundays ; but even there his poetic fancies often seemed to follow him , and it was difficult not to watch his features with wonder and amusement , while he stood up in his pew and looked round on the kneeling congregation , a ...
... church on Sundays ; but even there his poetic fancies often seemed to follow him , and it was difficult not to watch his features with wonder and amusement , while he stood up in his pew and looked round on the kneeling congregation , a ...
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... Church questions , or other subjects of the day , were keen and original , often humorous or satirical . There lay in his mind , as in that of men of imaginative genius there always is , a fund of humour , breaking out now in sparks of ...
... Church questions , or other subjects of the day , were keen and original , often humorous or satirical . There lay in his mind , as in that of men of imaginative genius there always is , a fund of humour , breaking out now in sparks of ...
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Page 208 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
Page 61 - A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars, And, as it were one voice, an agony Of lamentation, like a wind, that shrills All night in a waste land, where no one comes, Or hath come, since the making of the world. Then murmur'd Arthur, " Place me in the barge,
Page 452 - Yes, thou art gone ! and round me too the night In ever-nearing circle weaves her shade. I see her veil draw soft across the day, I feel her slowly chilling breath invade The cheek grown thin, the brown hair sprent with...
Page 452 - O Thyrsis, still our tree is there ! — Ah, vain ! These English fields, this upland dim, These brambles pale with mist engarlanded, That lone, sky-pointing tree, are not for him ; To a boon southern country he is fled, And now in happier air, Wandering with the great Mother's train divine (And purer or more subtle soul than thee, I trow, the mighty Mother doth not see) Within a folding of the Apennine...
Page 166 - This greatest of civil wars was not gradually developed by popular commotion, tumultuous assemblies, or local unorganized insurrections. However long may have been its previous conception, it nevertheless sprung forth suddenly from the parent brain, a Minerva in the full panoply of war. The President was bound to meet it in the shape it presented itself, without waiting for Congress to baptize it with a name ; and no name given to it by him or them could change the fact.
Page 453 - What though the music of thy rustic flute Kept not for long its happy, country tone, Lost it too soon, and learnt a stormy note, Of men contention-tost...
Page 201 - Beautiful ! my Country ! ours once more ! Smoothing thy gold of war-dishevelled hair O'er such sweet brows as never other Wore, And letting thy set lips, Freed from wrath's pale eclipse, The rosy edges of their smile lay bare, What words divine of lover or of poet Could tell our love and make thee know it, Among the Nations bright beyond compare ? What were our lives without thee ? What all our lives to save thee ? We reck not what we gave thee ; We will not dare to doubt thee, But ask whatever else,...
Page 232 - CONSIDER. Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief: — We are as they; Like them we fade away, As doth a leaf. Consider The sparrows of the air of small account: Our God doth view Whether they fall or mount, — He guards us too. Consider The lilies that do neither spin nor toil, Yet are most fair: — What profits all this care And all this coil?
Page 357 - ... the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real.
Page 453 - Here cam'st thou in thy jocund youthful time, Here was thine height of strength, thy golden prime ! And still the haunt beloved a virtue yields.