Ladies' Magazine, Volume 2Putnam & Hunt, 1829 |
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... heaven , O'er the dimpled stream she flies ; Ah ! who but prays for the wand of power , To bid that vision stay ? But see , down the dark , returnless wave , She hath passed in her light away ! And now a bark comes rushing on , With the ...
... heaven , O'er the dimpled stream she flies ; Ah ! who but prays for the wand of power , To bid that vision stay ? But see , down the dark , returnless wave , She hath passed in her light away ! And now a bark comes rushing on , With the ...
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... heaven's immortal crown , Its pure effulgence borroweth not From the lustre of earth's renown- And if Bethlehem's Star our course but guide , While down Time's stream we're driven , Oh ! the gulph of buried years , will wear The light ...
... heaven's immortal crown , Its pure effulgence borroweth not From the lustre of earth's renown- And if Bethlehem's Star our course but guide , While down Time's stream we're driven , Oh ! the gulph of buried years , will wear The light ...
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... heaven is approving the sacrifice . I had reached a spot commanding a glimpse of the harbor , the sea swell- ing and sparkling beneath the glow of the broad setting sun , when a troop of frolicksome urchins , just liberated from the ...
... heaven is approving the sacrifice . I had reached a spot commanding a glimpse of the harbor , the sea swell- ing and sparkling beneath the glow of the broad setting sun , when a troop of frolicksome urchins , just liberated from the ...
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... heaven is no distinction of sex , make a distinction in the honor they pay to intelligence , to talents , when combined with piety , on earth ? In the rude ages of the world , when physical strength gave the right to be eminent , woman ...
... heaven is no distinction of sex , make a distinction in the honor they pay to intelligence , to talents , when combined with piety , on earth ? In the rude ages of the world , when physical strength gave the right to be eminent , woman ...
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... heaven ! Thou hast seen that midnight glow , Hiding moon and star and sky , And the icy hills below , Reddening to the fearful dye . Dark and desolate and lone , Curtained with the tempest - cloud , Drawn around thy ancient throne Like ...
... heaven ! Thou hast seen that midnight glow , Hiding moon and star and sky , And the icy hills below , Reddening to the fearful dye . Dark and desolate and lone , Curtained with the tempest - cloud , Drawn around thy ancient throne Like ...
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Page 474 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 474 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Page 52 - Discourse may want an animated — No, To brush the surface, and to make it flow ; But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease. The mark, at which my juster aim I take, Is contradiction for its own dear sake.
Page 527 - Extolling patience as the truest fortitude; And to the bearing well of all calamities, All chances incident to man's frail life, Consolatories writ With studied argument, and much persuasion sought, Lenient of grief and anxious thought: But with the...
Page 537 - This, this is he, softly a while, Let us not break in upon him. O change beyond report, thought, or belief!
Page 140 - ... how intense were my sufferings. But the point, the acme of my distress, consisted in the awful uncertainty of our final fate. My prevailing opinion was, that my husband would suffer violent death ; and that I should, of course, become a slave, and languish out a miserable though short existence, in the tyrannic hands of some unfeeling monster. But the consolations of religion, in these trying circumstances, were neither
Page 139 - Sometimes, for days and days together, I could not go into the prison till after dark, when I had two miles to walk, in returning to the house. O how many, many times...
Page 139 - During these seven months, the continual extortions and oppressions to which your brother, and the other white prisoners were subject, are indescribable. Sometimes sums of money were demanded, sometimes pieces of cloth, and handkerchiefs; at other times, an order would be issued, that the white foreigners should not speak to each other, or have any communication with their friends without. Then, again, the servants were forbidden to carry in their food, without an extra fee.
Page 514 - His talk was like a stream, which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses: It slipped from politics to puns, It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels, or shoeing horses.