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Page 213 - He hath filled the hungry with good things ; and the rich He hath sent empty away. He hath holpen His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy ; as He spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
Page 261 - For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel ; " In returning and rest shall ye be saved ; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength :
Page 149 - Rugby Chapel NOVEMBER 1857 Coldly, sadly descends The autumn evening. The field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of withered leaves, and the elms, Fade into dimness apace, Silent, - hardly a shout From a few boys late at their play! The lights come out in the street, In the school-room windows; - but cold, Solemn, unlighted, austere, Through the gathering darkness, arise The chapel-walls, in whose bound Thou, my father! art laid. There thou dost lie, in the gloom Of the autumn evening.
Page 253 - HE who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy ; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise The Question Answer'd WHAT is it men in women do require ? The lineaments of Gratified Desire.
Page 121 - ... he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Page 131 - ... for natural observation. He remarked that the Flora of Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America, — most of the oaks, most of the willows, the best pines, the ash, the maple, the beech, the nuts. He returned Kane's " Arctic Voyage " to a friend of whom he had borrowed it, with the remark, that " Most of the phenomena noted might be observed in Concord.
Page 121 - Now therein of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the human conceit), is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way as will entice any man to enter into it...
Page 231 - I lay this at your feet and stamp upon it : I draw this sword, and break it and deny you ; and, had you completed the wrong you designed us, by Heaven I would have driven it through your heart, and no more pardoned you than your father THE PRINCES REPENTANCE. 443 pardoned Monmouth. Frank will do the same, won't you, Cousin?