Remains of the Late Rev. Charles Wolfe ... with a Brief Memoir of His LifeHamilton, Adams, and Company, 1842 - 371 pages |
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... ruins of my body , Smiling in apathy : I feel no longer ; I challenge Rome to give another pang.- Gods ! how he smiled , when he beheld me pause Before his car , and scowl upon the mob ; The curse of Rome was burning on my lips , And I ...
... ruins of my body , Smiling in apathy : I feel no longer ; I challenge Rome to give another pang.- Gods ! how he smiled , when he beheld me pause Before his car , and scowl upon the mob ; The curse of Rome was burning on my lips , And I ...
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... ruins of a city ; And on a craggy fragment sits a form That seems in ruins also : how unmov'd , How stern he looks ! Amazement ! it is Marius ! Ha ! Marius , think'st thou now upon Jugurtha ? He turns ! he's caught my eye ! I see no ...
... ruins of a city ; And on a craggy fragment sits a form That seems in ruins also : how unmov'd , How stern he looks ! Amazement ! it is Marius ! Ha ! Marius , think'st thou now upon Jugurtha ? He turns ! he's caught my eye ! I see no ...
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... ruin to your host , and howl dismay ! Was it for this , dear , desolated shore ! I taught proud Commerce here her gifts to pour , Allured from fairer Italy the maid , And here the ground - works of the empire laid ? Is there a bolt to ...
... ruin to your host , and howl dismay ! Was it for this , dear , desolated shore ! I taught proud Commerce here her gifts to pour , Allured from fairer Italy the maid , And here the ground - works of the empire laid ? Is there a bolt to ...
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... ruins of his fortune , and said , " I have lost no- thing . " Yet , once he had enjoyed all the pomp and magnificence of courts , and all the luxury that afflu- They ence could procure ; but well he knew that 62 REMAINS OF.
... ruins of his fortune , and said , " I have lost no- thing . " Yet , once he had enjoyed all the pomp and magnificence of courts , and all the luxury that afflu- They ence could procure ; but well he knew that 62 REMAINS OF.
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... ruin , —what an awful state is his who has never se- riously and earnestly given himself to the considera- tion of the things of another world ! Nor is it very likely that , when want of consideration ( a fault of little magnitude in ...
... ruin , —what an awful state is his who has never se- riously and earnestly given himself to the considera- tion of the things of another world ! Nor is it very likely that , when want of consideration ( a fault of little magnitude in ...
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Page 262 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness...
Page 233 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Page 182 - They cannot mean that," answered Mr. Mertonn, " for our Lord has also told us to let our light so shine before men, that they may see our good works, and glorify our Father Which is in Heaven...
Page 26 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 337 - And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Page 270 - Thou wilt show me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy, and at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 64 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 349 - God is faithful, who will not suffer" us " to be tempted above that" we " are able ; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that " we
Page 25 - We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 204 - And GOD created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and GOD saw that it was good.