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Page 144 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Page 145 - In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew, And saw the lion's shadow ere himself, And ran dismay'd away. LOR. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea-banks, and waft her love To come again to Carthage.
Page 143 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Page 248 - I am really quite upset at the very idea; and if I had not seen it with my own eyes I could not have believed it.
Page 143 - Alas ! alas ! the angelic voice has not yet proclaimed '•' that God shall wipe away all tears from their eves ; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain ; for the former things are passed away.
Page 57 - Well, Lucy Maria and Mr. Jemmie, I trust your theological studies may render you at last as pious as I am. You know how death and sin came into the world, and you know what they are. Sin is doing anything on earth that's pleasant, and death's the penalty of it. Did you ever see any one dead, my sweet child — not able to raise a finger or an eyelid ? rather a fix, isn't it? — and screwed up in a...
Page 57 - ... alone, underground? You'll be so, egad, and your friend Jemmie, there, perhaps before me— though I'm an old boy. Younkers go off sometimes by the score. I've seen 'em trundled out in fever and plague, egad, lying in rows, like plucked chickens in a poulterer's shop. And they say you've scarletina all about you, here, now; bad complaint, you know, that kills the little children. You need not frighten yourselves, though, because it must happen, sooner or laterdie you must. It's the penalty, you...