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... sent , were symbolised in a measure by these snow - flakes , so pure and perishable , adorning earth in their bright lowliness for a season , and then exhaled to heaven . The student's mind then turned , and travelled along the path of ...
... sent , were symbolised in a measure by these snow - flakes , so pure and perishable , adorning earth in their bright lowliness for a season , and then exhaled to heaven . The student's mind then turned , and travelled along the path of ...
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... sent his boy to lock it . Here is hope enlarging almost to certainty . The child is in the church , no doubt , and eagerly they press into the porch , as the old man casts the heavy door back on its grating hinges . They hurry up the ...
... sent his boy to lock it . Here is hope enlarging almost to certainty . The child is in the church , no doubt , and eagerly they press into the porch , as the old man casts the heavy door back on its grating hinges . They hurry up the ...
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... sent to proprietors and persons living on their means . One of these , an old woman , sold a house for nearly four thousand pounds , by order of the good angels , and gave the doctor the money . He found himself thwarted by the wife of ...
... sent to proprietors and persons living on their means . One of these , an old woman , sold a house for nearly four thousand pounds , by order of the good angels , and gave the doctor the money . He found himself thwarted by the wife of ...
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... sent their patients to the " Prophet of Mènetous . " Besides cur- ing the sick , Chesneau celebrated re- ligious offices of his own invention . Wearied with his perpetual quotations . from Scripture , the president of the Tribunal cried ...
... sent their patients to the " Prophet of Mènetous . " Besides cur- ing the sick , Chesneau celebrated re- ligious offices of his own invention . Wearied with his perpetual quotations . from Scripture , the president of the Tribunal cried ...
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... sent to a retired captain , known as the American , and who was supposed to be acquainted with the mode of deal- ing with witches . This man refused to come , fearing that Gurian would bewitch his children , but he sent his advice ; and ...
... sent to a retired captain , known as the American , and who was supposed to be acquainted with the mode of deal- ing with witches . This man refused to come , fearing that Gurian would bewitch his children , but he sent his advice ; and ...
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Page 473 - The scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon, consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn scenes and acts with a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies : and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm.
Page 467 - Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Page 572 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 296 - Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. Vainly he strove to rise ; and Evangeline, kneeling beside him, Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes ; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement.
Page 97 - ... there is no border-land with him. You cannot hover with him upon the confines of truth, or wander in the maze of a probable argument. He always keeps the path. You cannot make excursions with him, for he sets you right. His taste never fluctuates. His morality never abates. He cannot compromise, or understand middle actions. There can be but a right and a wrong. His conversation is as a book. His affirmations have the sanctity of an oath. You must speak upon the square with him. He stops a metaphor...
Page 371 - But above all let us not be influenced by any angry feelings so far as to shut our eyes to the perception of what is really excellent and amiable in the English character. We are a young people, necessarily an imitative one, and must take our examples and models in a great degree from the existing nations of Europe. There is no country more worthy of our study than England.
Page 196 - A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again: The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know.
Page 319 - Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
Page 97 - I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. They cannot like me — and in truth, I never knew one of that nation who attempted to do it.
Page 553 - ... to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate, in glorious and lofty hymns, the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ...