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... THOU WERT WITHIN ; AND PROV'D THAT THOU DIDST KNOW WHATEVER WIT COULD SAY . WHICH SHOW'D THOU HADST NOT BOOKS AS MANY HAVE , FOR OSTENTATION , BUT FOR USE ; AND THAT THY BOUNTEOUS MEMORY WAS SUCH AS GAVE A LARGE REVENUE OF THE GOOD IT ...
... THOU WERT WITHIN ; AND PROV'D THAT THOU DIDST KNOW WHATEVER WIT COULD SAY . WHICH SHOW'D THOU HADST NOT BOOKS AS MANY HAVE , FOR OSTENTATION , BUT FOR USE ; AND THAT THY BOUNTEOUS MEMORY WAS SUCH AS GAVE A LARGE REVENUE OF THE GOOD IT ...
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... thou hast filled , with husht and holy awe It may be as well to give here , at length , such information as is in my hands relative to Madoc . On the fly - leaf to the First Fragment of Madoc ( in my possession ) , Southey has writ- ten ...
... thou hast filled , with husht and holy awe It may be as well to give here , at length , such information as is in my hands relative to Madoc . On the fly - leaf to the First Fragment of Madoc ( in my possession ) , Southey has writ- ten ...
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... thou hast a deadly dower of miseries , whose marks thou still bearest on thy forehead ; oh , that thou wert less beautiful or more strong , that they might love thee less , or fear thee more , who pretend to be dying for thee at the ...
... thou hast a deadly dower of miseries , whose marks thou still bearest on thy forehead ; oh , that thou wert less beautiful or more strong , that they might love thee less , or fear thee more , who pretend to be dying for thee at the ...
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... Thou would'st know what cares employ The morn , and whither is the noon - tide walk And what the evening sports of him , who morn And noon and night fills up Affection's thoughts . I know these longings well ; and I would fain Sketch ...
... Thou would'st know what cares employ The morn , and whither is the noon - tide walk And what the evening sports of him , who morn And noon and night fills up Affection's thoughts . I know these longings well ; and I would fain Sketch ...
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... thou to comprehend the way of the Most High ? " Then said I , Yea , my Lord . And he answered me and said , I am sent to show thee three ways , and to set forth three si- militudes before thee ; " Whereof if thou canst declare me one ...
... thou to comprehend the way of the Most High ? " Then said I , Yea , my Lord . And he answered me and said , I am sent to show thee three ways , and to set forth three si- militudes before thee ; " Whereof if thou canst declare me one ...
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Page 148 - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Page 494 - No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.
Page 480 - Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron; and they fought against it: 37: And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein...
Page 717 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Page 217 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
Page 64 - Righteous (art) thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of (thy) judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? (Wherefore) are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Page 717 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Page 514 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration...
Page 493 - The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood, By reason that they flow continually In some one part, and are not continent, Receive the name of humours. Now thus far It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition: As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
Page 683 - ... it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: a land which the Lord thy God careth for : the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.