Time's TelescopeSherwood, Gilbert, and Piper., 1830 - Almanacs, English |
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... light Still lingers on the moss - grown tow'r , While to the drowsy ear of night Slowly it marks the evening hour . " Tis hush'd ! and all is silent there , Save the fervent voice of pray'r . And now far down the quiet vale , Sweet ...
... light Still lingers on the moss - grown tow'r , While to the drowsy ear of night Slowly it marks the evening hour . " Tis hush'd ! and all is silent there , Save the fervent voice of pray'r . And now far down the quiet vale , Sweet ...
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... light up in them an incredible number of torches or lamps , which at a distance have a beau- tiful effect . In these they exhibit various kinds of shows to divert the people . Besides these enor- mous lanterns , there is a multitude of ...
... light up in them an incredible number of torches or lamps , which at a distance have a beau- tiful effect . In these they exhibit various kinds of shows to divert the people . Besides these enor- mous lanterns , there is a multitude of ...
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... light ; Nor were thy sweetest and thy noblest strains Attain'd without due toil and studious pains . The magic charm of music fix'd thy mind , Yet was still to various arts inclined ; Painting and sculpture gain'd thy fervid praise ...
... light ; Nor were thy sweetest and thy noblest strains Attain'd without due toil and studious pains . The magic charm of music fix'd thy mind , Yet was still to various arts inclined ; Painting and sculpture gain'd thy fervid praise ...
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... light ; Where wake's the war's discordant yell , With deafening song and tambour knell , And armed tower and curtained tent Nod on the castled elephant ; And silken bands in barbarous pride Troop by the turbaned Rajah's side ; Where ...
... light ; Where wake's the war's discordant yell , With deafening song and tambour knell , And armed tower and curtained tent Nod on the castled elephant ; And silken bands in barbarous pride Troop by the turbaned Rajah's side ; Where ...
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... light up the cheek : And his , that music , to whose tone The common pulse of man keeps time , In cot or castle's mirth or moan , In cold or sunny clime . And who hath heard his song , nor knelt Before its spell with willing knee , And ...
... light up the cheek : And his , that music , to whose tone The common pulse of man keeps time , In cot or castle's mirth or moan , In cold or sunny clime . And who hath heard his song , nor knelt Before its spell with willing knee , And ...
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Page 323 - Come to the bridal chamber, death ! Come to the mother when she feels For the first time her firstborn's breath ; — Come when the blessed seals Which close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke...
Page 306 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
Page 323 - Joy of her young years, Thinks of thy fate and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys. Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried Joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth Talk of thy doom without a sigh: For thou art freedom's now and fame's, One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die.
Page 208 - God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we, see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee; Where'er we turn, thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine! When day, with farewell beam, delays Among the opening clouds of even, And we can almost think we gaze Through golden vistas into heaven, Those hues, that make the sun's decline So soft, so radiant, Lord! are thine.
Page 54 - Anon his heart revives: her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees; Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one; Loosens her fragrant bodice; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees: Half-hidden, like a mermaid in seaweed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St.
Page 186 - Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Page 60 - In the first sense, sir, the charge is too trifling to be confuted, and deserves only to be mentioned that it may be despised.
Page 60 - ... have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult.
Page 53 - St Agnes' Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold ; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold : Numb were the Beadsman's fingers, while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seem'd taking flight for heaven, without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith...
Page 73 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !