Horæ subsecivæEdmonston and Douglas, 1862 - 486 pages |
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... soon vanishes away , as would the imaged heavens in the lake , if a pebble were cast into it , or a breath of wind stirred its face . The very anxiety to transfer it , as it looked out of the clear darkness of the past , makes the image ...
... soon vanishes away , as would the imaged heavens in the lake , if a pebble were cast into it , or a breath of wind stirred its face . The very anxiety to transfer it , as it looked out of the clear darkness of the past , makes the image ...
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... soon got teased with the short , pattering steps of Goliath , and looked wistfully up at me , and longingly to the tall chestnut , stepping once for Goliath's twice , like the Don striding beside Sancho . I saw what he was after , and ...
... soon got teased with the short , pattering steps of Goliath , and looked wistfully up at me , and longingly to the tall chestnut , stepping once for Goliath's twice , like the Don striding beside Sancho . I saw what he was after , and ...
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... soon find how full of pri- mary truth they were , and how well they would serve them , as they had served him . With all this heavy artillery , somewhat slow and cumbrous , on great questions , he had no want , when he was speaking off ...
... soon find how full of pri- mary truth they were , and how well they would serve them , as they had served him . With all this heavy artillery , somewhat slow and cumbrous , on great questions , he had no want , when he was speaking off ...
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... soon after the funeral , he said : - ' His removal is another memento to me that my own course is draw- ing near to its end . Nearly all of my contemporaries and of the friends of my youth are now gone before Well ! I may say , in the ...
... soon after the funeral , he said : - ' His removal is another memento to me that my own course is draw- ing near to its end . Nearly all of my contemporaries and of the friends of my youth are now gone before Well ! I may say , in the ...
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... soon ' placed , ' he had little travelling , and little of that tossing about the world , which , in the transition from youth to manhood , hardens the frame as well as supples it . Though delicate , he was almost never ill . I do not ...
... soon ' placed , ' he had little travelling , and little of that tossing about the world , which , in the transition from youth to manhood , hardens the frame as well as supples it . Though delicate , he was almost never ill . I do not ...
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Page 95 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds : but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 104 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
Page 55 - God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ; but, when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
Page 424 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Page 469 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Page 423 - One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 105 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 95 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
Page 280 - RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 355 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.