Ethel's romance, Volume 3; Volume 142 |
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Page 45 - And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Page 220 - Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
Page 227 - FAIR ISABEL, poor simple Isabel ! Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye ! They could not in the self-same mansion dwell Without some stir of heart, some malady ; They could not sit at meals but feel how well It soothed each to be the other by ; They could not, sure, beneath the same roof sleep, But to each other dream, and nightly weep.
Page 46 - To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me on my throne ; even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father on His throne.
Page 64 - I say, the acknowledgment of God in Christ Accepted by thy reason, solves for thee All questions in the earth and out of it, And has so far advanced thee to be wise.
Page 110 - Thou hast disgraced me, Pierre, by a vile blow : Had not a dagger done thee nobler justice ? But use me as thou wilt, thou canst not wrong me, For I am fallen beneath the basest injuries ; Yet look upon me with an eye of mercy, With pity and with charity behold me ; Shut not thy heart against a friend's repentance, But, as there dwells a godlike nature in thee, Listen with mildness to my supplications. Pier. What whining monk art thou ? what holy cheat, That wouldst encroach upon my credulous ears,...
Page 203 - God, merciful Father, that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart, nor the desire of such as be sorrowful ; Mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities, whensoever they oppress us...
Page 187 - Meet massed in death, who lends what life must borrow. As long as skies are blue, and fields are green, Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year...
Page 76 - THIS is the place. Stand still, my steed, Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy Past The forms that once have been.
Page 76 - tis ever thus With noble minds, if chance they slide to folly ; Remorse stings deeper, and relentless conscience Pours more of gall into the bitter cup Of their severe repentance.