Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and ImmortalityA.S. Barnes, 1852 - 516 sidor |
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... Divine bene- volence . " Then , farewell , Night ! Of darkness , now no more : Joy breaks , shines , triumphs : ' tis eternal Day . Shall that which rises out of nought complain Of a few evils , paid with endless joys ? My soul ...
... Divine bene- volence . " Then , farewell , Night ! Of darkness , now no more : Joy breaks , shines , triumphs : ' tis eternal Day . Shall that which rises out of nought complain Of a few evils , paid with endless joys ? My soul ...
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... divine , A knave or fool should perish in each line ; Though for the first all Westminster should plead , And for the last all Gresham intercede . " None better than our author understood the susceptibility of the human heart to the ...
... divine , A knave or fool should perish in each line ; Though for the first all Westminster should plead , And for the last all Gresham intercede . " None better than our author understood the susceptibility of the human heart to the ...
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... divine . Nowhere are the great facts and doctrines of Christianity more clearly and im- pressively described than in that remarkable production . But while he thus made honourable attainments in the science of theology , and was an ...
... divine . Nowhere are the great facts and doctrines of Christianity more clearly and im- pressively described than in that remarkable production . But while he thus made honourable attainments in the science of theology , and was an ...
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... divine . He compliments them highly in the poem , Mrs. Montague at least . " Yet write I must . A lady sues : How shameful her request ! My brain in labour for dull rhyme ; Hers teeming with the best ! " In a subsequent part of the same ...
... divine . He compliments them highly in the poem , Mrs. Montague at least . " Yet write I must . A lady sues : How shameful her request ! My brain in labour for dull rhyme ; Hers teeming with the best ! " In a subsequent part of the same ...
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... divine , sweeps stars and suns aside . " Many volumes , admit of being The only notices which we can find of his habits as a student are very brief , yet not devoid of interest . In reading a book , when a passage pleased him , he was ...
... divine , sweeps stars and suns aside . " Many volumes , admit of being The only notices which we can find of his habits as a student are very brief , yet not devoid of interest . In reading a book , when a passage pleased him , he was ...
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Sida 363 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of eternity — the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread fathomless alone.
Sida 185 - tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung. And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
Sida 397 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Sida 124 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Sida 363 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Sida 378 - This was the most unkindest cut of all ; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors...
Sida 270 - Pure as the expanse of heaven I thither went With unexperienced thought and laid me down On the green bank to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky. As I bent down to look just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appeared Bending to look on me. I started back It started back but pleased I soon returned Pleased it returned as soon with answering looks Of sympathy and love.
Sida 77 - An heir of glory! a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! insect infinite! A worm! a god! I tremble at myself, . And in myself am lost ! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own: how reason reels!
Sida 375 - Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold a surging maze, his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant...
Sida 75 - To reason, and on reason build resolve, (That column of true majesty in man) Assist me : I will thank you in the grave ; The grave, your kingdom : There this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine.