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... poor ; Ring in redress to all mankind . Ring out a slowly dying cause , And ancient forms of party strife ; Ring in the nobler modes of life , With sweeter manners , purer laws . Ring out the want , the care , the sin , The faithless ...
... poor ; Ring in redress to all mankind . Ring out a slowly dying cause , And ancient forms of party strife ; Ring in the nobler modes of life , With sweeter manners , purer laws . Ring out the want , the care , the sin , The faithless ...
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... poor men can make ; They can add little unto Bliss , Who cannot wish . May no ill Vapour cloud the Sky , Bold Storms invade the Sovereignty ; But gales of joy , so fresh , so high , That you may think Heav'n sent to try this Year What ...
... poor men can make ; They can add little unto Bliss , Who cannot wish . May no ill Vapour cloud the Sky , Bold Storms invade the Sovereignty ; But gales of joy , so fresh , so high , That you may think Heav'n sent to try this Year What ...
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... poor Johann was discharged . And as the boys hooted him away from the play - ground , the trustees granted them a whole holiday . Mem . I dedicate this to our worthy English friends . NO . III . SANCTA SIMPLICITAS ' WITH A ? Hans ...
... poor Johann was discharged . And as the boys hooted him away from the play - ground , the trustees granted them a whole holiday . Mem . I dedicate this to our worthy English friends . NO . III . SANCTA SIMPLICITAS ' WITH A ? Hans ...
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... poor creatures , worn and weary with the terrible hardship of their lot , were swept away in its tides ! Her voice ceased from weariness , and I fell into a troubled sleep , and dreamt a terrible dream . I saw in my dream a black and ...
... poor creatures , worn and weary with the terrible hardship of their lot , were swept away in its tides ! Her voice ceased from weariness , and I fell into a troubled sleep , and dreamt a terrible dream . I saw in my dream a black and ...
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... poor Arthur as for a dead brother . One morning , in the beginning of autumn , found me sitting at the window of our house upon the Garth side . It was a splendid morning . The mountain towered grandly up behind us , and its brow was ...
... poor Arthur as for a dead brother . One morning , in the beginning of autumn , found me sitting at the window of our house upon the Garth side . It was a splendid morning . The mountain towered grandly up behind us , and its brow was ...
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Page 4 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Page 503 - And, because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 782 - But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way : for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel : for I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 711 - Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him ; he hath put him to grief; when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Page 672 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 504 - Then the pied windflowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness...
Page 181 - Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 504 - But none ever trembled and panted with bliss In the garden, the field, or the wilderness, Like a doe in the noontide with love's sweet want, As the companionless sensitive plant.
Page 776 - And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ? And he said, Who art thou, Lord ? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest : it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 803 - COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. Do thou With courtesy receive him : rise and bow : And, ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his heavenly feet to lave, Then lay before him all thou hast. Allow No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow, Or mar thy hospitality, no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate Thy soul's marmoreal calmness.