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... never will a mortal ear List to such minstrelsy again . Let other instruments be mute , And Silence lock them in her cave ; Even the warble of a flute , Creeping by moonlight o'er the wave . In murky weather , when the sun Is hidden by ...
... never will a mortal ear List to such minstrelsy again . Let other instruments be mute , And Silence lock them in her cave ; Even the warble of a flute , Creeping by moonlight o'er the wave . In murky weather , when the sun Is hidden by ...
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... never cried . This time , however , the month was clearly ended , and no one pre- sumed to question the justice of ... never before touched his heart , and he exclaimed , almost involuntarily : Who is this heavenly vision ? ' " Sire ...
... never cried . This time , however , the month was clearly ended , and no one pre- sumed to question the justice of ... never before touched his heart , and he exclaimed , almost involuntarily : Who is this heavenly vision ? ' " Sire ...
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... never was a serpent readier to cut stick ' when it is possible . Though I have killed hundreds of them for fun , ' and for the fine penetrating oil they yield , they never molested my bare - feet , and in all that huge den of a town , I ...
... never was a serpent readier to cut stick ' when it is possible . Though I have killed hundreds of them for fun , ' and for the fine penetrating oil they yield , they never molested my bare - feet , and in all that huge den of a town , I ...
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... never come within reach of such a heathen again . I have not seen the good dame since , but I know that she could fry pork , onions and apples ' first rate , ' and , I doubt not , she thought a dollar a very liberal offer for her old ...
... never come within reach of such a heathen again . I have not seen the good dame since , but I know that she could fry pork , onions and apples ' first rate , ' and , I doubt not , she thought a dollar a very liberal offer for her old ...
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... never world - wide , nor to become so . They dragged down their glory to the tomb , leaving their books as shelf - monuments , to be read in the stu- dent's closet , but little to be known to the masses . Only Shakspeare of the play ...
... never world - wide , nor to become so . They dragged down their glory to the tomb , leaving their books as shelf - monuments , to be read in the stu- dent's closet , but little to be known to the masses . Only Shakspeare of the play ...
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Page 80 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 461 - Nothing in my hand I bring; Simply to thy cross I cling ; Naked, come to thee for dress ; Helpless, look to thee for grace ; Foul, I to the fountain fly ; Wash me, Saviour, or I die.
Page 547 - There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects of wit upon the different characters of men ; than to observe it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness, teaching age, and care, and pain to smile, extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure from melancholy, and Charming -even the pangs of grief.
Page 521 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 277 - When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain, for he beholds thy beams no more; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eastern clouds, or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. But thou art perhaps, like me, for a season; thy years will have an end. Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds careless of the voice of the morning.
Page 461 - Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee ! Let the water and the blood, From Thy riven side which flow'd, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.
Page 277 - O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone: who can be a companion of thy course! The oaks of the mountains fall: the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again: the moon herself is lost in heaven; but thou art for ever the same; rejoicing in the brightness of thy course.
Page 49 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
Page 547 - I have talked of the danger of wit : I do not mean by that to enter into commonplace declamation against faculties because they are dangerous ; — wit is dangerous, eloquence is dangerous, a talent for observation is dangerous, every thing is dangerous that has efficacy and vigor for its characteristics ; nothing is safe but mediocrity.
Page 551 - Till in his arms their lambs he takes, Along the dizzy verge to go, Then, heedless of the rifts and breaks, They follow on, o'er rock and snow. And in those pastures, lifted fair, More dewy soft than lowland mead, The shepherd drops his tender care, And sheep and lambs together feed.