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... close the volume . Not one of them , I believe , was written with a view to publication , but I was unwilling they should be omitted . JOHN NEWTON . CHARLES SQUARE , HOXTON , February 18 , 1782 . 6. Translations , from Madame Guion ...
... close the volume . Not one of them , I believe , was written with a view to publication , but I was unwilling they should be omitted . JOHN NEWTON . CHARLES SQUARE , HOXTON , February 18 , 1782 . 6. Translations , from Madame Guion ...
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... close ; Abhorred forms , dire phantoms interpose ; With trembling voice on thy loved name I call ; And gulfs yawn ready to receive my fall . From these fallacious visions of distress I wake ; nor are my real sorrows less . Thy absence ...
... close ; Abhorred forms , dire phantoms interpose ; With trembling voice on thy loved name I call ; And gulfs yawn ready to receive my fall . From these fallacious visions of distress I wake ; nor are my real sorrows less . Thy absence ...
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... close of day . But each was forced at entering here pay the tribute of a tear , То For more of smoke than fire was seen ; The hearth was piled with logs so green . From hence in chaises we were carried Miles twenty - four , and gladly ...
... close of day . But each was forced at entering here pay the tribute of a tear , То For more of smoke than fire was seen ; The hearth was piled with logs so green . From hence in chaises we were carried Miles twenty - four , and gladly ...
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... close , " Sir , you have business , I suppose " My business , sir , is quickly done , ' Tis but to make my merit known . Sir , I have read " . ' O learned sir , You and your learning I revere . " Then , sweating with anxiety , And sadly ...
... close , " Sir , you have business , I suppose " My business , sir , is quickly done , ' Tis but to make my merit known . Sir , I have read " . ' O learned sir , You and your learning I revere . " Then , sweating with anxiety , And sadly ...
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... close Still hand and glove , sir , I suppose . " " Newcastle ( let me tell you , sir , ) Has not his equal every where . " " Well . There indeed your fortune's made ! Faith , sir , you understand your trade . Would you but give me your ...
... close Still hand and glove , sir , I suppose . " " Newcastle ( let me tell you , sir , ) Has not his equal every where . " " Well . There indeed your fortune's made ! Faith , sir , you understand your trade . Would you but give me your ...
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Page 62 - A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic, like the sun ; It gives a light to every age — It gives, but borrows none.
Page 242 - Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ; Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Page 253 - Had cheer'd the village with his song, Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite ; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark ; So stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent:— Did you admire my lamp...
Page 53 - HARK, my soul ; it is the Lord ; "Tis thy Saviour; hear his word ; Jesus speaks, and speaks to thee, " Say, poor sinner, lov'st thou me...
Page 40 - OH ! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame, — A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb ! 2 Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord ? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word ? 3...
Page 78 - The Lord of all the vast domain Has promised it to me ; The length and breadth of all the plain As far as faith can see How glorious is my privilege!
Page 263 - The kindest and the happiest p"air Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
Page 129 - Oh, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan ! No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustering ornaments to clog the pile, From ostentation as from weakness free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscribed above the portal, from afar Conspicuous as the brightness of a star. Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul-quickening words — BELIEVE AND LIVE.
Page 66 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
Page 68 - GOD of my life, to Thee I call, Afflicted at thy feet I fall ; When the great water-floods prevail, Leave not my trembling heart to fail ! 2 Friend of the friendless, and the faint ! Where should I lodge my deep complaint ? Where but with Thee, whose open door Invites the helpless and the poor...