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... round the dingy apartment , and saw Mr. Singleton's desk vacant . He contented himself with the thought that the absence would be only brief , and that a severe reprimand , or a threatened reduction in salary , would bring the truant to ...
... round the dingy apartment , and saw Mr. Singleton's desk vacant . He contented himself with the thought that the absence would be only brief , and that a severe reprimand , or a threatened reduction in salary , would bring the truant to ...
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... round ; Within that dreary charnel - house No soothing voice was found . Above him all was dark and damp ; No pleasing thing was there ; For sunbeam seldom enters it , Or breath of vernal air . A sigh burst from my bosom when I looked ...
... round ; Within that dreary charnel - house No soothing voice was found . Above him all was dark and damp ; No pleasing thing was there ; For sunbeam seldom enters it , Or breath of vernal air . A sigh burst from my bosom when I looked ...
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... round it a little sweet oil close to the mouth of the bottle , and lay it near the fire ; afterwards wrap a thick cloth round the end of a stick and strike the stopper gently . Our Correspondents . As we have allotted a space to ...
... round it a little sweet oil close to the mouth of the bottle , and lay it near the fire ; afterwards wrap a thick cloth round the end of a stick and strike the stopper gently . Our Correspondents . As we have allotted a space to ...
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... round the board . Nor less they loved the softer lute , By fairer fingers strung , And every louder sound was mute When Sintram breathed upon the flute , And Lady Constance sung . In Winter's sterner reign of white , Amid the freezing ...
... round the board . Nor less they loved the softer lute , By fairer fingers strung , And every louder sound was mute When Sintram breathed upon the flute , And Lady Constance sung . In Winter's sterner reign of white , Amid the freezing ...
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... round of existence . You would not think , though , to see some at the oar that they were chained to it for life . They sing so blithely at their work , they look so happy and free from care The chain appears not to gall them , nor ...
... round of existence . You would not think , though , to see some at the oar that they were chained to it for life . They sing so blithely at their work , they look so happy and free from care The chain appears not to gall them , nor ...
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Page 30 - DOES the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. But is there for the night a resting-place? A roof for when the slow dark hours begin. May not the darkness hide it from my face? You cannot miss that inn. Shall I meet other wayfarers at night? Those who have gone before. Then must I knock, or call when just in sight?
Page 136 - I cry aloud to all and sundry in my plainest accents and at the very tiptop of my voice. Here it is, gentlemen ! Here is the good liquor...
Page 149 - O thou invisible spirit of wine ! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Page 95 - And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess ; but be filled with the spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Page 30 - But is there for the night a resting-place? A roof for when the slow dark hours begin. May not the darkness hide it from my face? You cannot miss that inn. Shall I meet other wayfarers at night? Those who have gone before. Then must I knock, or call when just in sight? They will not keep you standing at that door. Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak? Of labour you shall find the sum. Will there be beds for me and all who seek? Yea, beds for all who come.
Page 75 - Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Make our earth an Eden, Like the heaven above.
Page 165 - Now when the dead man come to life beheld His wife his wife no more, and saw the babe Hers, yet not his, upon the father's knee, And all the warmth, the peace, the happiness, And his own children tall and beautiful, And him, that other, reigning in his place, Lord of his rights and of his children's love, — Then he, tho...
Page 38 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you; therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
Page 136 - ... and come hither to scrub your blooming face, and drown the memory of certain taps of the ferule, and other school-boy troubles, in a draught from the Town Pump. Take it, pure as the current of your young life. Take it, and may your heart and tongue never be scorched with a fiercer thirst than now! There, my dear child, put down the cup, and yield your place to this elderly gentleman, who treads so tenderly over the stones, that I suspect he is afraid of breaking them. What ! he limps by...
Page 73 - For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.