The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir of the Author, Volume 1

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Little, Brown, 1860 - English poetry

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Page 283 - Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; 18 that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Page 230 - Thou therefore gird up thy loins and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee. Be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
Page 275 - 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 21 - ... study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 230 - Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Page xxvi - Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Of tempests and the dangers of the deep, And pause at times, and feel that we are safe ; Then listen to the perilous tale again, And with an eager and suspended soul, Woo terror to delight us.
Page 230 - Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee ; and before thou eamest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Page 230 - Ah, Lord GOD ! behold, I cannot speak : for I am a child. 7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child : for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Page 285 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Page 1 - At the age of sixty-three I have undertaken to collect and edit my poetical works, with the last corrections that I can expect to bestow upon them. They have obtained a reputation equal to my wishes. * * Thus to collect and revise them is a duty which I owe to that part of the public hv whom they have been auspiciously received, and to those who will take a lively concern In my 200i1 name when I shall have departed.

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