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... almost every one knows that January takes its name from the Roman god Janus , whose two - sided face indicated his knowledge of past and future ; or- ? Passion , he turns benignantly to Patience , counting the THE POETRY OF THE NEW YEAR .
... almost every one knows that January takes its name from the Roman god Janus , whose two - sided face indicated his knowledge of past and future ; or- ? Passion , he turns benignantly to Patience , counting the THE POETRY OF THE NEW YEAR .
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... turns to trouble ; Where just men suffer wrong ; Where sorrow treads on joy ; Where sweet things soonest cloy ; Where faiths are built on dust ; Where love is half mistrust , Hungry and barren , and sharp as the sea ; Oh , set us free ...
... turns to trouble ; Where just men suffer wrong ; Where sorrow treads on joy ; Where sweet things soonest cloy ; Where faiths are built on dust ; Where love is half mistrust , Hungry and barren , and sharp as the sea ; Oh , set us free ...
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... turn the source of a voluntary submission to natural authority . Where the natural temperance of the home - life of the Germans had not been corrupted by contact with a Roman element , Christianity had no conflict to dread with refined ...
... turn the source of a voluntary submission to natural authority . Where the natural temperance of the home - life of the Germans had not been corrupted by contact with a Roman element , Christianity had no conflict to dread with refined ...
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... turning sharply to the left , came to the steps that led to the water , It was very dark , and we walked down , step by step , with trembling awe . The sounds upon the bridge seemed strange and unearthly , and every distant cry like the ...
... turning sharply to the left , came to the steps that led to the water , It was very dark , and we walked down , step by step , with trembling awe . The sounds upon the bridge seemed strange and unearthly , and every distant cry like the ...
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... turning the corner I saw , a little way on before , a young man , ill - dressed and dirty , with a slouching gait . He had on his shoulder a leathern strap , on which were strung some pewter pots , and moved slowly along as if breathing ...
... turning the corner I saw , a little way on before , a young man , ill - dressed and dirty , with a slouching gait . He had on his shoulder a leathern strap , on which were strung some pewter pots , and moved slowly along as if breathing ...
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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.