Scenes and Songs of Social Life: A MiscellanySaxton & Kelt, 1846 - 336 pages |
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... kind words of Christian fellowship , and told of past days of sinfulness and profanity , of storms and tempests , and kind rebuke ; and lifting a small volume to heaven , with streaming eyes he thanked God that he met again with the ...
... kind words of Christian fellowship , and told of past days of sinfulness and profanity , of storms and tempests , and kind rebuke ; and lifting a small volume to heaven , with streaming eyes he thanked God that he met again with the ...
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... kind of mon- strosity , against which the voice of nature would cry out . And this is a deathless principle . It is as lasting as it is universal . The poet beautifully calls it the ' Spring - head of all felicity , Deepest when most is ...
... kind of mon- strosity , against which the voice of nature would cry out . And this is a deathless principle . It is as lasting as it is universal . The poet beautifully calls it the ' Spring - head of all felicity , Deepest when most is ...
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... with inscriptions of that charity which suffereth long and is kind , that love which conquers all things . There is , in the State of Connecticut , a very - pretty village , which , as you descend a OF SOCIAL LIFE . 53.
... with inscriptions of that charity which suffereth long and is kind , that love which conquers all things . There is , in the State of Connecticut , a very - pretty village , which , as you descend a OF SOCIAL LIFE . 53.
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... kind of favorite with her companions . We have forgotten whether her eyes were the melting blue , or the sparkling and lively black ; nor are we quite sure that they were either one or the other . Her form was neither that of a sylph or ...
... kind of favorite with her companions . We have forgotten whether her eyes were the melting blue , or the sparkling and lively black ; nor are we quite sure that they were either one or the other . Her form was neither that of a sylph or ...
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... kind lady , and the lively Emeline . Among these was Edward Bartlett . Young Bartlett was an apprentice to the only trader in the place , and he was univer- sally esteemed , as a promising youth . His visits to the widow's were ...
... kind lady , and the lively Emeline . Among these was Edward Bartlett . Young Bartlett was an apprentice to the only trader in the place , and he was univer- sally esteemed , as a promising youth . His visits to the widow's were ...
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Page 302 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please...
Page 214 - Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket, have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air. Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ! Oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to Heaven.
Page 170 - Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary...
Page 333 - Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded ; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity: I will mock when your fear cometh ; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Page 231 - I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord : I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people.
Page 9 - What th' unsearchable dispose Of highest Wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft he seems to hide his face, But unexpectedly returns, And to his faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously ; whence Gaza mourns, And all that band them to resist His...
Page 302 - Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene; How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made...
Page 214 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep...
Page 244 - The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Page 195 - Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night. See! how she leans her cheek upon her hand: O! that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek.