The Amusements of My Leisure Hours: Being a Small Collection of PoemsWebb and Phillips, 1843 - 136 pages |
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... gaze ; Each niche , each buttress now recalls Some pleasing scene of former days . Some antic gambol each restores With freshen'd colours to the mind , ( Like sometime faded , now reviving flow'rs ) And leave their long and lasting mark ...
... gaze ; Each niche , each buttress now recalls Some pleasing scene of former days . Some antic gambol each restores With freshen'd colours to the mind , ( Like sometime faded , now reviving flow'rs ) And leave their long and lasting mark ...
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... gaze the glitt'ring toy he eyed , And turn'd it o'er and o'er with conscious pride ; Till by degrees at length familiar grown , He dropp'd it carelessly , its int'rest flown ; Tir'd of his sport , with wanton tread , He crush'd the ...
... gaze the glitt'ring toy he eyed , And turn'd it o'er and o'er with conscious pride ; Till by degrees at length familiar grown , He dropp'd it carelessly , its int'rest flown ; Tir'd of his sport , with wanton tread , He crush'd the ...
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... gleam upon the night , A pleasing object to the gazing eye , Will still this lesson to the mind convey ; The brightest charms may fail of bliss ; Far humbler lead to happiness . The glitt'ring torch that lit the glow - worm's path 45.
... gleam upon the night , A pleasing object to the gazing eye , Will still this lesson to the mind convey ; The brightest charms may fail of bliss ; Far humbler lead to happiness . The glitt'ring torch that lit the glow - worm's path 45.
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... joy'd to see thy parent's eye In silent gaze peruse thy face , While heaving many a tender sigh , It seem'd thy future fate to trace . I've joy'd to see thy rip'ning years To learning and E 2 51 To the same on her Wedding-day.
... joy'd to see thy parent's eye In silent gaze peruse thy face , While heaving many a tender sigh , It seem'd thy future fate to trace . I've joy'd to see thy rip'ning years To learning and E 2 51 To the same on her Wedding-day.
Page 57
... gaze of fops and folly's paltry brood ; Such charms had ne'er prevail'd on me to stand The subject of the tedious limner's hand ; Far other motives fill'd my anxious view , And their intent , the future good of you . Pause then awhile ...
... gaze of fops and folly's paltry brood ; Such charms had ne'er prevail'd on me to stand The subject of the tedious limner's hand ; Far other motives fill'd my anxious view , And their intent , the future good of you . Pause then awhile ...
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The Amusements of My Leisure Hours: Being a Small Collection of Poems Thomas Hill No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 120 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, And shall perform all my pleasure ; Even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Page 120 - Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut...
Page 128 - And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 130 - But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Page 132 - And when ye stand- praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any ; that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But, if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
Page 129 - Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
Page 128 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Page 116 - Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, The intertissued robe of gold and pearl, The farced title running 'fore the king, The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp That beats upon the high shore of this world, No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony, Not all these, laid in bed majestical, Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave...
Page 120 - I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron : and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
Page 132 - Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee ; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die ; 12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.