Seraphita

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Roberts Brothers, 1898 - 275 pages
 

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Page 70 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen ; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
Page xlv - For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Page lxv - Not once or twice in our fair island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory : He, that ever following her commands, On with toil of heart and knees and hands, Thro...
Page xvi - so deep accurst That runn'st from pole to pole To seek a draught to slake thy thirst — Go, seek it in thy soul ! " She heard it, the victorious West, In crown and sword array'd!
Page xv - The East bow'd low before the blast In patient, deep disdain; She let the legions thunder past, And 'plunged in thought again.
Page xvii - He breaks the winter of the past; A green, new earth appears. Millions, whose life in ice lay fast, Have thoughts, and smiles, and tears.
Page lxii - If the world be indeed fair and the artificer good, it is manifest that he must have looked to that which is eternal; but if what cannot be said without blasphemy is true, then to the created pattern.
Page xvi - She tore her books, she shut her courts, She fled her palaces; "Lust of the eye and pride of life She left it all behind, And hurried, torn with inward strife, The wilderness to find. "Tears wash'd the trouble from her face! She changed into a child! 'Mid weeds and wrecks she stood — a place Of ruin — but she smiled!
Page 65 - Swedenborg," testified thus : " The only weakness of this truly honest man was his belief in ghost-seeing ; but I knew him for many years, and I can confidently affirm that he was as fully persuaded that he conversed with spirits, as I am that I am writing at this moment. As a citizen and as a friend, he was a man of the greatest integrity, abhorring imposture, and leading an exemplary life.
Page 64 - As soon as he was perceived by the Queen, she said to him, ' Well, Mr. Assessor, have you seen my brother?' Swedenborg answered, No; whereupon she replied, ' If you should see him, remember me to him.

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