Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Volume 29Devonshire Press, 1897 - Devon (England) List of members in each volume. |
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Page 40 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Page 307 - It was true, we give law to hares and deer, because they be beasts of chase ; but it was never accounted either cruelty, or foul play, to knock foxes and wolves on the head as they can be found, because they be beasts of prey.
Page 186 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Page 210 - The Reaper said, and smiled ; "Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. "They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.
Page 186 - Tis yet too soon "To seek for heaven or think of death ?" A flower may fade before 'tis noon, And I this day may lose my breath.
Page 209 - To dwell with fellow clay. 2 Yet faith may triumph o'er the grave, And trample on the tombs; My Jesus, my Redeemer lives, My God, my Saviour comes. 3 The mighty Conqueror shall appear High on a royal seat, And death, the last of all his foes, Lie vanquish'd at his feet.
Page 191 - As you are now so once was I; As I am now, so you must be Prepare for death and follow me.
Page 189 - What can preserve my life ! or what destroy ! An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave ; Legions of angels can't confine me there.
Page 28 - But the feeding of the rivers, and the purifying of the winds, are the least of the services appointed to the hills. To fill the thirst of the human heart for the beauty of God's working — to startle its lethargy with the deep and pure agitation of astonishment — are their higher missions.
Page 218 - I become your man, from this day forward, of life and limb, and of earthly worship, and unto you shall be true and faithful, and bear you faith for the tenements that I claim to hold of you, saving the faith that I owe to our sovereign lord the king; and then the lord, so sitting, shall kiss him.