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... fire , with all the fairy forms That oft have flitted through the festive dance ; The tongue that told , the ear that drank , the strain Of love's inebriating melody ? Long have they moulder'd in the dust of death ! Illustrious ruin ...
... fire , with all the fairy forms That oft have flitted through the festive dance ; The tongue that told , the ear that drank , the strain Of love's inebriating melody ? Long have they moulder'd in the dust of death ! Illustrious ruin ...
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... fire , and the rocks are thrown down by him , " Nah . i . 3 , 6 . Though the place was lonely , yet as a road ran between the river and the wood , even at night the footfall of a passer - by was not un- common . Indeed , on most nights ...
... fire , and the rocks are thrown down by him , " Nah . i . 3 , 6 . Though the place was lonely , yet as a road ran between the river and the wood , even at night the footfall of a passer - by was not un- common . Indeed , on most nights ...
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... fire , since which time , though its approaches and grounds have been improved and beautified , its ruins have been left a monu- ment of the frailty of the most substantial of earthly things . If massy tower , and thick and solid wall ...
... fire , since which time , though its approaches and grounds have been improved and beautified , its ruins have been left a monu- ment of the frailty of the most substantial of earthly things . If massy tower , and thick and solid wall ...
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... fire ; fire shall burn it . " No one knows by whom these words were graven on the stone , and many have regarded them as par- taking of the nature of a prophecy . It would now require an antiquary to point out , distinctly , where once ...
... fire ; fire shall burn it . " No one knows by whom these words were graven on the stone , and many have regarded them as par- taking of the nature of a prophecy . It would now require an antiquary to point out , distinctly , where once ...
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... fire , and fearful was the sight of the flaming pile in its elevated situation . Wreaths of flame wrapped round the goodly towers and massy walls , mounting up far above them , while the thick , black smoke poured forth from archway ...
... fire , and fearful was the sight of the flaming pile in its elevated situation . Wreaths of flame wrapped round the goodly towers and massy walls , mounting up far above them , while the thick , black smoke poured forth from archway ...
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Página 7 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Página 82 - Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
Página 269 - Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Página 94 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
Página 85 - And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness : And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited : and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Página 127 - FAR from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far ; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made, For those who follow thee.
Página 75 - The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked; the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Página 121 - In every stream his bounty flows, Diffusing joy and wealth; In every breeze his spirit blows, — The breath of life and health.
Página 35 - For the Lord is a great God, And a great King above all gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth : The strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it : And his hands formed the dry land.
Página 196 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.