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... side , might of arms on the wrong . Beautiful enthusiast ! ill - requited were thy services ; thy noble head bowed to the de- stroyer's power , but thy heart bravely encoun- tered all for the sake of that which thy enthu- siastic soul ...
... side , might of arms on the wrong . Beautiful enthusiast ! ill - requited were thy services ; thy noble head bowed to the de- stroyer's power , but thy heart bravely encoun- tered all for the sake of that which thy enthu- siastic soul ...
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Rose Ellen Temple. what a queen can really do , either on the side of virtue or vice , bring to mind the Medici . A Queen is upon our British throne , a queen with gentle virtues and feminine attri- butes ; she stoops to please , and ...
Rose Ellen Temple. what a queen can really do , either on the side of virtue or vice , bring to mind the Medici . A Queen is upon our British throne , a queen with gentle virtues and feminine attri- butes ; she stoops to please , and ...
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... side of happiness , the poor child claims it . The march of intellect which induces all classes to know how to read , ought to teach authors , and especially political authors , to take care what they write . Would it be reasonable to ...
... side of happiness , the poor child claims it . The march of intellect which induces all classes to know how to read , ought to teach authors , and especially political authors , to take care what they write . Would it be reasonable to ...
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... side . But now now , in these peaceful times , - why cabal about terms , -let motives be the object ; let all that is sacred convince our politicians of that which they should ever bear in mind that they hold a responsible situation ...
... side . But now now , in these peaceful times , - why cabal about terms , -let motives be the object ; let all that is sacred convince our politicians of that which they should ever bear in mind that they hold a responsible situation ...
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... side by side . Go- pause - reflect . Will ye - dare ye oppress the poor ? Philanthropy , beautiful , chaste Philan- thropy , thy offsprings 5 FACTORIES . 49.
... side by side . Go- pause - reflect . Will ye - dare ye oppress the poor ? Philanthropy , beautiful , chaste Philan- thropy , thy offsprings 5 FACTORIES . 49.
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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.