Graham's Magazine, Volumes 32-33G. R. Graham, 1848 |
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... death- bed , you plead at the throne of God , He has said , ' Blessed are the merciful , for they shall receive mercy . ' If she really had committed the offence , I should not fear to ask you for mercy on her young head - her ...
... death- bed , you plead at the throne of God , He has said , ' Blessed are the merciful , for they shall receive mercy . ' If she really had committed the offence , I should not fear to ask you for mercy on her young head - her ...
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... Death's eternal brink , Which it must dare alone ! But in the awful silence of the sky , Upon some mountain summit , never trod Through the bright ether would I climb , to die Afar from mortals , and alone with God ! To the pure keeping ...
... Death's eternal brink , Which it must dare alone ! But in the awful silence of the sky , Upon some mountain summit , never trod Through the bright ether would I climb , to die Afar from mortals , and alone with God ! To the pure keeping ...
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... death , there should not be found one man having sufficient hardihood to write this little book ? To write , I say . There are ten thousand men who , if the book were once written , would laugh at the notion of being disturbed by its ...
... death , there should not be found one man having sufficient hardihood to write this little book ? To write , I say . There are ten thousand men who , if the book were once written , would laugh at the notion of being disturbed by its ...
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... Death before the grinning thousand ! worse than were a a myriad racks ! While the trial were an evil quite as grievous , quite as great , For the verdict of his peers would rend from him his proud estate : Next they led him him forth to ...
... Death before the grinning thousand ! worse than were a a myriad racks ! While the trial were an evil quite as grievous , quite as great , For the verdict of his peers would rend from him his proud estate : Next they led him him forth to ...
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... death . Bound unto the rocky ground with many an iron link and Now and then his senses wandered ; now again his mind band ; That done to death the Lady Gwineth - O ! my soul is How the words , like flakes of music , silver music ...
... death . Bound unto the rocky ground with many an iron link and Now and then his senses wandered ; now again his mind band ; That done to death the Lady Gwineth - O ! my soul is How the words , like flakes of music , silver music ...
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Page 76 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 202 - WE sat within the farmhouse old, Whose windows, looking o'er the bay, Gave to the sea-breeze, damp and cold, An easy entrance, night and day. Not far away we saw the port, — The strange, old-fashioned, silent town, — The lighthouse, — the dismantled fort, — The wooden houses, quaint and brown. We sat and talked until the night, Descending, filled the little room ; Our faces faded from the sight, Our voices only broke the gloom. We spake of many a vanished scene, Of what we once had thought...
Page 91 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Page 202 - The very tones in which we spake Had something strange, I could but mark; The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark.
Page 76 - In the same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her.
Page 24 - If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own — the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple — a few plain words — "My Heart Laid Bare.
Page 63 - THE bard has sung, God never formed a soul Without its own peculiar mate, to meet Its wandering half, when ripe to crown the whole Bright plan of bliss, most heavenly, most complete!
Page 24 - To write, I say. There are ten thousand men who, if the book were once written, would laugh at the notion of being disturbed by its publication during their life, and who could not even conceive why they should object to its being published after their death. But to write it — there is the rub. No man dare write it. No man ever will dare write it. No man could write it, even if he dared. The paper would shrivel and blaze at every touch of the fiery pen.
Page 340 - Who can place them beside that glory, " which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, and of which it hath not entered into the heart of man to conceive...
Page 184 - As soon as the young were fully grown, and before they left the nests, numerous parties of the inhabitants, from all parts of the adjacent country, came with wagons, axes, beds, cooking utensils, many of them accompanied by the greater part of their families, and encamped for several days at this immense nursery.