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ancholy appear beautiful behold Bible blessed body BOOK OF JOB Cambyses cause child Christ Christian city of God cloud creatures dark dead death deep died divine Divine Comedy dream earth earthly emotions eternity evil exalted exceedingly existence fact father fear forever gone grief happy heart heaven holy hope and fear human idea imagine infant infinite Jesus John Foxe kind land ligion living look lost melancholy ment mental midst mind misery moral mother nature ness never night nity once pain pantheism peace person pleasant pleasing pleasure quiet race reach repentance ROBERT CARTER saddened scene second temple seems seen shed tears sigh silent simply sleep smile solitude soul speak spirit strange suffering sympathy thee things THOMAS GUTHRIE thou thought tion tivated touching trouble truth vast number voice vols weary weep wept whole wonderful words
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Page 198 - Behold, we go up to Jerusalem ; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes ; and they shall condemn him to death...
Page 241 - Not to a rage : patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once...
Page 100 - ... paternal roof. But could the sympathy and kind offices of friends have reached a spirit so shocked and driven in by horror, she would have experienced no want of consolation, for the Irish are a people of quick and generous sensibilities. The most delicate and cherishing attentions were paid her by families of wealth and distinction.
Page 167 - When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone ? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Page 39 - To me it is a most touching face ; perhaps, of all faces that I know, the most so. Lonely there, painted as on vacancy, with the simple laurel wound round it ; the deathless sorrow and pain, the known victory which is also deathless...
Page 84 - SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.
Page 165 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people...
Page 89 - And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
Page 117 - My panting side was charged when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.^ There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by the archers.
Page 100 - The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of fargone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene ; to find it wandering like a spectre, lonely and joyless, where all around is gay ; to see it dressed out in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and woe-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.