Flowers of Literature and Ladies' Keepsake: A Selection from Some of the Best Authors of England, Scotland, Swisserland and AmericaA.C. Greene, Printer, 1850 - 144 páginas |
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... given to the affections - how can the little state of man be pre- served from continual insurrection - how can this restrain- ing power be maintained , if this faculty of discerning - if this faculty of inspection , be not kept in ...
... given to the affections - how can the little state of man be pre- served from continual insurrection - how can this restrain- ing power be maintained , if this faculty of discerning - if this faculty of inspection , be not kept in ...
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... given point when we may be emancipated from this vexatious self - inspection ? is the matured Christian to be a slave to the same drudgery as the novice ? The true answer is : We may cease to watch when our spirit- ual enemy ceases to ...
... given point when we may be emancipated from this vexatious self - inspection ? is the matured Christian to be a slave to the same drudgery as the novice ? The true answer is : We may cease to watch when our spirit- ual enemy ceases to ...
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... of Christianity , accordingly , that the key has been given to the signs of nature ; it was only when the spirit of God " moved on the face of the deep , " that order and beauty were seen in the world . It is AND LADIES ' KEEPSAKE . 17.
... of Christianity , accordingly , that the key has been given to the signs of nature ; it was only when the spirit of God " moved on the face of the deep , " that order and beauty were seen in the world . It is AND LADIES ' KEEPSAKE . 17.
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... given quantity of business . These critics , who are for sparing the Supreme Being the trouble of our prayers , and who , if I may so speak without profaneness , would relieve Omnipotence of part of his burden , by assigning to his care ...
... given quantity of business . These critics , who are for sparing the Supreme Being the trouble of our prayers , and who , if I may so speak without profaneness , would relieve Omnipotence of part of his burden , by assigning to his care ...
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... that full bliss of thought allied , Never to mortals given— Oh ! lay thy lovely dreams aside , Or lift them up to Heaven . MRS . HEMANS . PRAYER . BY . L. H. SIGOURNEY . Peter therefore B6 AND LADIES ' KEEPSAKE . * 35.
... that full bliss of thought allied , Never to mortals given— Oh ! lay thy lovely dreams aside , Or lift them up to Heaven . MRS . HEMANS . PRAYER . BY . L. H. SIGOURNEY . Peter therefore B6 AND LADIES ' KEEPSAKE . * 35.
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Página 58 - There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God ! Felicia Hemans.
Página 58 - THE breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed ; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Página 105 - Like the fair flower dishevelled in the wind ; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream ; The man we celebrate must find a tomb, And we that worship him, ignoble graves. Nothing is proof against the general curse Of vanity, that seizes all below. The only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue, the only lasting treasure, truth.
Página 39 - How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel...
Página 28 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Página 28 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, And he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still.
Página 96 - For, after a long and manly, but vain struggle with his distemper, he dismissed his physicians, and with them all hopes of life : but with his hopes of life he dismissed not his concern for the living, but sent for a youth nearly related, and finely accomplished, yet not above being the better for good impressions from a dying friend.
Página 57 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Página 28 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths : their soul is melted because of trouble.
Página 94 - He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character " above all Greek, above all Roman fame.