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... heart and make the favorite of fortune forget his birth and mortal character , three causes of annoyance were attached to them . First , a slave sat on his right hand in the chariot - which served to hint that poverty and unmerited ...
... heart and make the favorite of fortune forget his birth and mortal character , three causes of annoyance were attached to them . First , a slave sat on his right hand in the chariot - which served to hint that poverty and unmerited ...
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... hearts , And then your neighbors next . " 66 " " Then they must go forward until they find the brook " Be - buxom - of - speech , " and at the ford " Honor - your- fathers " they must wash themselves well - " and ye shall leap the more ...
... hearts , And then your neighbors next . " 66 " " Then they must go forward until they find the brook " Be - buxom - of - speech , " and at the ford " Honor - your- fathers " they must wash themselves well - " and ye shall leap the more ...
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... heart sought for confession , And greatly his guiltiness began to shew . As pale as a palet in a palsy he seemed , Clothed in a caurimauri which I cannot describe . A kirtle and a short cloak , a knife by his side ; Of a friar's dress ...
... heart sought for confession , And greatly his guiltiness began to shew . As pale as a palet in a palsy he seemed , Clothed in a caurimauri which I cannot describe . A kirtle and a short cloak , a knife by his side ; Of a friar's dress ...
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... heart ; And for his winning I weep and deplore all the time . I condemn men that do ill , and yet I do worse , For I would that every one in this world were my servant , And if any one hath more than I , it grieveth my heart . Thus I ...
... heart ; And for his winning I weep and deplore all the time . I condemn men that do ill , and yet I do worse , For I would that every one in this world were my servant , And if any one hath more than I , it grieveth my heart . Thus I ...
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... heart . Then see that thou love him well and observe his law . And then there are seven sisters that serve Truth forever , And porters and gate - keepers that belong to the place . One is called Abstinence , and another Humility ...
... heart . Then see that thou love him well and observe his law . And then there are seven sisters that serve Truth forever , And porters and gate - keepers that belong to the place . One is called Abstinence , and another Humility ...
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Page 1 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Page 243 - And though sometimes each dreary pause between Dejected Pity at his side Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered mien, While each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head.
Page 244 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemmed with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to faun and dryad known! The oak-crowned sisters, and their chaste-eyed queen, Satyrs, and sylvan boys, were seen, Peeping from forth their alleys green; Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear, And Sport leapt up, and, seized his beechen spear.
Page 207 - Surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream. Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand.
Page 243 - Poured through the mellow horn her pensive soul ; And dashing soft from rocks around, Bubbling runnels joined the sound; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole. Or o'er some haunted stream with fond delay, Round a holy calm diffusing, Love of peace and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Page 210 - Multitudes were very busy in the pursuit of bubbles that glittered in their eyes and danced before them; but often when they thought themselves within the reach of them, their footing failed and down they sunk.
Page 1 - Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in Me. I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without Me ye can do nothing.
Page 90 - Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead as living ever him ador'd: Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope, which in his helpe he had: Right faithfull true he was in deede and word, But of his cheere did seeme too solemne sad, Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad.
Page 241 - tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound; And, as they oft had heard, apart, Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each, for Madness ruled the hour, Would prove his own expressive power. First Fear his hand, its skill to try, Amid the chords bewildered laid, And back recoiled, he knew not why, E'en at the sound himself had made.
Page 94 - Yea but (quoth she) the perill of this place I better wot then you, though now too late To wish you backe returne with foule disgrace, Yet wisedome warnes, whilest foot is in the gate, To stay the steppe, ere forced to retrate. This is the wandring wood, this Errours den, A monster vile, whom God and man does hate : Therefore I read beware. Fly fly (quoth then The fearefull dwarfe) this is no place for living men.