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... dread ! In spirit overwhelmed and tremulous , In hushed amaze and wildering reveries lost , Here do I bow before thine august front ! Thou universal type of human thought ! All things of earth and heaven , of man and God , By thee are ...
... dread ! In spirit overwhelmed and tremulous , In hushed amaze and wildering reveries lost , Here do I bow before thine august front ! Thou universal type of human thought ! All things of earth and heaven , of man and God , By thee are ...
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... dread abyss , And wrestling frantic with the rocks below ! I see thee like a huge leviathan , Swelling , as if with conscious power , thy crest , Rolling in boiling billows , that to thee Are but the infant playthings of an hour , And ...
... dread abyss , And wrestling frantic with the rocks below ! I see thee like a huge leviathan , Swelling , as if with conscious power , thy crest , Rolling in boiling billows , that to thee Are but the infant playthings of an hour , And ...
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... dread Destroyer ! potent avalanche Of waters ! who can rise from underneath Thy whelming mass uncrushed ? Say , who can brave The awful terror of thy conquering arm ? As from an Alpine summit thou dost launch Thy snow - white torrents ...
... dread Destroyer ! potent avalanche Of waters ! who can rise from underneath Thy whelming mass uncrushed ? Say , who can brave The awful terror of thy conquering arm ? As from an Alpine summit thou dost launch Thy snow - white torrents ...
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... dread Divinity in flame arrayed , 6 So man , at distance gazing on thy front , O Archetype of God ! must stand in dread , And own the limit of his might to be Described before the bulwarks of thy strength . Yet , Master - current ! some ...
... dread Divinity in flame arrayed , 6 So man , at distance gazing on thy front , O Archetype of God ! must stand in dread , And own the limit of his might to be Described before the bulwarks of thy strength . Yet , Master - current ! some ...
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... dread , As light oft glimmers , when the sun is gone , Upon the glaciers of an Alpine height ; He sees those refuge spots of earth and seeks , Like a lone hunted victim , their defence , As those of old , who stained with blood , oft ...
... dread , As light oft glimmers , when the sun is gone , Upon the glaciers of an Alpine height ; He sees those refuge spots of earth and seeks , Like a lone hunted victim , their defence , As those of old , who stained with blood , oft ...
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abyss altar American Fall amid Arcturus arms art thou banks bark beauty beneath blessed blest breast breath bright brow cascade Cataract Cave Central Fall cities of refuge clouds dark death deep depth distance doom dread dwell e'en echoes Fall Farewell fierce filled flood foes grief hand hast hath hear heard heart Heaven height hills hope Horseshoe Fall hurled images Iris Island isle Lake Erie Lake Huron Lake Ontario land leagues Lewiston light line from top lips lone look LORD miles morning NAVY ISLAND neath Niagara River night NOTE pass Pleiades praise precipice rapture rise rock roll round rush seems shines shore side smile song soul sound spirit spring season stars streams sweet swift tell thee thine thou dost thought throne tide torrent tread truth vales voice Waterfall waters waves whirlpool wild winds
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Page 149 - I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim : each one had six wings ; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said: — " Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts : the whole earth is full of His glory.
Page 151 - And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Page 152 - And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
Page 150 - Inspire the course ; but fainting breathless toil, Sick, seizes on his heart: he stands at bay; And puts his last weak refuge in despair; The big round tears run down his dappled face ; He groans in anguish...
Page 149 - Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Page 164 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 151 - Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Page 184 - The sense of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity.
Page 165 - Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Page 165 - Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. 37. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.