The Life of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore

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General Protestant Episcopal sunday school union, and Church book society, 1860 - 183 pages
 

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Page 69 - ... a loving wife, and many friends to pity me, and some to relieve me, and I can still discourse ; and, unless I list they have not taken away my merry countenance, and my cheerful spirit, and a good conscience ; they...
Page 67 - No clouds, no vapours intervene, But the gay, the open scene Does the face of Nature show In all the hues of heaven's bow And, swelling to embrace the light, Spreads around beneath the sight. Old castles on the cliffs arise, Proudly towering in the skies; Rushing from the woods, the spires Seem from hence ascending fires; Half his beams Apollo sheds On the yellow mountain-heads, Gilds the fleeces of the flocks And glitters on the broken rocks.
Page 16 - At which sight the sheriff wept apace, and so did divers others of the company. After they had prayed, he rose up and kissed his wife, and shook her by the hand, and said : Farewell, my dear wife, be of good comfort, for I am quiet in my conscience.
Page 57 - I cast anchor, and thinking to ride safely, the storm followed me with so impetuous violence, that it broke a cable, and I lost my anchor. And here again I was exposed to the mercy of the sea, and the gentleness of an element that could neither distinguish things nor persons ; and but that He who stilleth the raging of the sea, M and the noise of his waves...
Page 120 - Their state is safe, and heaven is given to them upon very easy terms ; nothing but to be born and die. It will cost you more trouble to get where they are ; and amongst other things one of the hardnesses will be, that you must overcome even this just and reasonable grief; and indeed, though the grief hath but too reasonable a cause, yet it is much more reasonable that you master it.
Page 67 - Holds and charms the wandering eye. Deep are his feet in Towy's flood, His sides are clothed with waving wood And ancient towers crown his brow, That cast an awful look below...
Page 58 - And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
Page 66 - What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapors, intervene; But the gay, the open scene Does the face of Nature show, In all the hues of heaven's bow! And, swelling to embrace the light, Spreads around beneath the sight.
Page 120 - Hoc me male urit,' is the best signification of my apprehension of your sad story. But sir, I cannot choose, but I must hold another and a brighter flame to you, it is already burning in your...
Page 121 - ... alone. And if you consider that of the bravest men in the world we find the seldomest stories of their children, and the Apostles had none, and thousands of the worthiest persons that sound most in story died...

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