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... glory of a reign to be comprehended in the number of events which may be crowded into it , and also that some one of these events be of im- portance . In the reign of this king the first Crusade forms a memorable recollection . how ...
... glory of a reign to be comprehended in the number of events which may be crowded into it , and also that some one of these events be of im- portance . In the reign of this king the first Crusade forms a memorable recollection . how ...
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... glory will be reflected ; for the truest type of a great mind is to encourage those high qualities which our limited strength cannot positively grasp at . A queen need not be a heroine , and yet she may be glorious . That discrimination ...
... glory will be reflected ; for the truest type of a great mind is to encourage those high qualities which our limited strength cannot positively grasp at . A queen need not be a heroine , and yet she may be glorious . That discrimination ...
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... glory move around thee , and the attractive powers of thy charms are gentleness and love . But It is too unfortunately true , that when we bring forward the misfortunes of Louis the Sixteenth of France , the French talk of those of ...
... glory move around thee , and the attractive powers of thy charms are gentleness and love . But It is too unfortunately true , that when we bring forward the misfortunes of Louis the Sixteenth of France , the French talk of those of ...
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... glory but the blaze of fame ? " Milton has written , but the ancient Romans earned not renown and glory at such a price ; 52 POLITICAL FAME .
... glory but the blaze of fame ? " Milton has written , but the ancient Romans earned not renown and glory at such a price ; 52 POLITICAL FAME .
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Rose Ellen Temple. earned not renown and glory at such a price ; peaceable days may understand the line , but magnanimous actions of yore earned death for the sad reward , and the last . Yet far be it from our ideas to believe that no ...
Rose Ellen Temple. earned not renown and glory at such a price ; peaceable days may understand the line , but magnanimous actions of yore earned death for the sad reward , and the last . Yet far be it from our ideas to believe that no ...
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Page 45 - The world is still deceived with ornament. In law what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it. and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Page 81 - ... life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity! While vacant hours of beauty roll Their magic o'er some yielded soul, Ah ! little do the happy guess, The sum of human wretchedness ; Or dream, amid the soft farewell That Time of them is taking, How frequent moans the funeral knell, What noble hearts are breaking, While myriads to their tombs descend, Without a mourner, creed, or friend!
Page 81 - A moment is a mighty thing, Beyond the soul's imagining; For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot! How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity!
Page 63 - Is there not A mood of glory, when the mind attuned To heaven, can out of dreams create her worlds ?Oh ! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind : When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away ; The Heavens are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in, and hath a fearful glimpse of God...
Page 82 - How hardly shall a rich man enter into the kingdom of heaven...
Page 63 - The calm of thought, the melody of mind ! When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away ; The Heavens are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in, and hath a fearful glimpse of God ! HAPPINESS OF HUMBLE LIFE.