The Living Age, Volume 269E. Littell & Company, 1911 |
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... comes in Over her threshold - stone ? And why is the old dog wild with joy Who all day long made moan ? This fair ... come with me , my own mother , And you shall have great ease , For you shall see the lost children Gathered to Mary's ...
... comes in Over her threshold - stone ? And why is the old dog wild with joy Who all day long made moan ? This fair ... come with me , my own mother , And you shall have great ease , For you shall see the lost children Gathered to Mary's ...
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... comes out but the most lowest stuff in nature , not a bit of high life among them . " was written about 1765. Fielding had died in 1749 , but his popularity was very high when Goldsmith wrote , and the art of Hogarth , though chiefly ...
... comes out but the most lowest stuff in nature , not a bit of high life among them . " was written about 1765. Fielding had died in 1749 , but his popularity was very high when Goldsmith wrote , and the art of Hogarth , though chiefly ...
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... comes out top , " he is not without kindliness , public spirit and good nature , and his attachment to the wife whom he eventually wins is a strange compound of love and ambi- tion . One would not describe him ex- actly as a " worldly ...
... comes out top , " he is not without kindliness , public spirit and good nature , and his attachment to the wife whom he eventually wins is a strange compound of love and ambi- tion . One would not describe him ex- actly as a " worldly ...
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... comes our way , Aunt Jane don't look for it . " Martha had come in with a pail of water and stood in the sunlight from the doorway , her face set like that of a Medusa in the midst of serpentine tangles of hair . No comb had as yet been ...
... comes our way , Aunt Jane don't look for it . " Martha had come in with a pail of water and stood in the sunlight from the doorway , her face set like that of a Medusa in the midst of serpentine tangles of hair . No comb had as yet been ...
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... come . I was reck'nin ' up last night as we mid manage to make a livin ' at last . " Martha's eyes met David's with a look of reproach which he could scarcely have withstood even if the older woman's appeal had not al- ready pierced him ...
... come . I was reck'nin ' up last night as we mid manage to make a livin ' at last . " Martha's eyes met David's with a look of reproach which he could scarcely have withstood even if the older woman's appeal had not al- ready pierced him ...
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Page 629 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 80 - AND I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud : and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire...
Page 658 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was.
Page 658 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, — past the wit of man to say what dream it was : man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Page 699 - The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.
Page 651 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 88 - BEHOLD, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
Page 699 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Page 698 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 288 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.