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... deep , aided as it was by the individuals by whom he was surrounded , while he remained at Bristol . Miss Tyler took great pains with his education , and , by encouraging him in reading some of our best writers of the old school ...
... deep , aided as it was by the individuals by whom he was surrounded , while he remained at Bristol . Miss Tyler took great pains with his education , and , by encouraging him in reading some of our best writers of the old school ...
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... deep red clouds Gather before the wind .. the rising wind , Whose sudden gusts , each wilder than the last , Appear'd to rock my senses . Soon the night Darken'd around , and the large rain drops fell Heavy ; anon tempestuously the gale ...
... deep red clouds Gather before the wind .. the rising wind , Whose sudden gusts , each wilder than the last , Appear'd to rock my senses . Soon the night Darken'd around , and the large rain drops fell Heavy ; anon tempestuously the gale ...
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... deep impress'd the horrors of that hour . Then as our widow wives clung round our necks , And the deep sob of anguish interrupted The prayer of parting , even the pious Priest As he implored his God to strengthen us , And told us we ...
... deep impress'd the horrors of that hour . Then as our widow wives clung round our necks , And the deep sob of anguish interrupted The prayer of parting , even the pious Priest As he implored his God to strengthen us , And told us we ...
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... deep - toned dirge , aud saw the banners wave A pompous shade , 4 and the high torches glare In the mid - day sun a dim and gloomy light , 42 I thought what he had been on earth who now God Was gone to his account , and blest my was not ...
... deep - toned dirge , aud saw the banners wave A pompous shade , 4 and the high torches glare In the mid - day sun a dim and gloomy light , 42 I thought what he had been on earth who now God Was gone to his account , and blest my was not ...
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... deep , Grown grey in study ; Priests and Bishops haste To Chinon ; teachers wise and with high names , Seraphic , Subtile or Irrefragable , By their admiring pupils dignified . The Doctors met , from cloister gloom recluse , Or from the ...
... deep , Grown grey in study ; Priests and Bishops haste To Chinon ; teachers wise and with high names , Seraphic , Subtile or Irrefragable , By their admiring pupils dignified . The Doctors met , from cloister gloom recluse , Or from the ...
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Page 322 - They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell ; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth...
Page 194 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 322 - Oh ! when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then, for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight ? THE HOLLY TREE.
Page 154 - And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha : and 1 Hel>.. tmttduwn. when the man !was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, "he revived, and stood up on his feet.
Page 167 - They retired from us with a wind at south-east, leaving an impression upon my mind to which I can give no name, though surely one ingredient in it was fear, with a considerable deal of wonder and astonishment.
Page 167 - ... few minutes to overwhelm us ; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds.
Page 332 - Had swallowed there, when monuments so brave Bore record of their old magnificence. And on the sandy shore, beside the verge Of Ocean, here and there, a rock-hewn fane Resisted in its strength the surf and surge That on their deep foundations beat in vain.
Page 304 - Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.
Page 62 - There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen : The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Page xvi - I have held up that school to public detestation, as enemies to the religion, the institutions, and the domestic morals of the country. I have given them a designation to which their founder and leader answers. I have sent a stone from my sling which has smitten their Goliath in the forehead. I have fastened his name upon the gibbet, for reproach and ignominy, as long as it shall endure.. .Take it down who can ! One word of advice to Lord Byron before I conclude..