Joseph, a religious poem. With notes, Volume 21810 |
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Abarim Abdeel Abraham Achish Adelah Amasis Amorites arms Asenath attest awhile behold Benjamin Bilhah blessing boast bold breast Brethren brother brow Canaan's cou'd coursers cries dare dear E'en e'er Egypt's land Egyptian evil exclaim'd eyes faith fame Famine fate father favor'd fear form'd gifts God's Governor grace grief hand hast hath heart Heaven Hishubak Hivite holy honors hope Hyæna Israel's sons Israelites Issachar Jacob Jemuel Joseph Judah Justice King Levi Levi's Loeh Lord Memphis mercy mighty mind Mizraim's Naphtali Nature's NOTES TO BOOK o'er Patriarch pause peace Pharaoh Pharaoh's Pharez praise Prince raised realms reply Reuben royal sacred scene sense Serah shews Shinab shou'd Simeon sire slave sons of Israel sorrow soul spake speak Steward stranger sweet sword t'wards thee theme thine thou thought thro truth voice wife wondrous words wou'd wretched youth Zaphnath Zebulon Zilpah
Popular passages
Page 118 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 311 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah : Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter: Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of asps.
Page 223 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.
Page 311 - When the ungodly perished, she delivered the righteous man, who fled from the fire which fell down upon the five cities. Of whose wickedness even to this day the waste land that smoketh is a testimony, and plants bearing fruit that never come to ripeness: and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving soul.
Page 118 - Citims, with others that lifted up themselves against them, and had overcome them: how also Antiochus the great king of Asia, that came against them in battle, having an hundred and twenty elephants, with horsemen, and chariots, and a very great army, was discomfited by them...
Page 321 - Besides this, it has been remarked! that the words, " thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or on the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth...
Page 332 - Famed son of Hippasus! there press the plain; There ends thy narrow span assign'd by fate, Heaven owes Ulysses yet a longer date. Ah, wretch! no father shall thy corpse compose; Thy dying eyes no tender mother close; But hungry birds shall tear those balls away, And hovering vultures scream around their prey. Me Greece shall honour, when I meet my doom, With solemn funerals and a lasting tomb.
Page 250 - Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: and thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: and there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Page 270 - ... will give you another, from a book, to the authority of which, as it is written by a profane author, you probably will not object. Diogenes Laertius, in his life of Solon, cites a letter of Pisistratus to that lawgiver, in which he says — " I Pisistratus, the tyrant, am contented with the stipends which were paid to those who reigned before me ; the people of Athens set apart a tenth of the fruits of their land, not for my private use, but to be expended in the public sacrifices, and for the...
Page 223 - The man that hath no music in his soul Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.