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... borne , By ghastly torchlight , and with wail Of women hired to mourn . The Greeks and Romans , but especially the former , were accustomed to bury in the night - in- deed , were forbidden by law to celebrate their burial 30 GOD'S ACRE .
... borne , By ghastly torchlight , and with wail Of women hired to mourn . The Greeks and Romans , but especially the former , were accustomed to bury in the night - in- deed , were forbidden by law to celebrate their burial 30 GOD'S ACRE .
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... borne toil and contumely , misery and scorn - can indeed look forward to death only as a signal of relief from a life of hopelessness ; but it is difficult , it is very difficult , for him who has luxuriated in enjoyment here , to ...
... borne toil and contumely , misery and scorn - can indeed look forward to death only as a signal of relief from a life of hopelessness ; but it is difficult , it is very difficult , for him who has luxuriated in enjoyment here , to ...
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... in the face of day , These rites their faithful hope display ; In long procession slow , With hymns that fortify the heart , And prayers that soften woe . In pagan rites by night torches were necessarily borne , 48 GOD'S ACRE.
... in the face of day , These rites their faithful hope display ; In long procession slow , With hymns that fortify the heart , And prayers that soften woe . In pagan rites by night torches were necessarily borne , 48 GOD'S ACRE.
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Elizabeth Stone. In pagan rites by night torches were necessarily borne , but the early Christians used them in full daylight as emblems of joyful hope . To these we shall refer more fully . Instead of hired mourners shrilly keening ...
Elizabeth Stone. In pagan rites by night torches were necessarily borne , but the early Christians used them in full daylight as emblems of joyful hope . To these we shall refer more fully . Instead of hired mourners shrilly keening ...
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... borne thither with all the amenities of honourable tendance ; and therefore , finally , was it committed to the dust with psalms and hymns of faith , of reverence , of hope , of anticipated reunion . That the early Christians very ...
... borne thither with all the amenities of honourable tendance ; and therefore , finally , was it committed to the dust with psalms and hymns of faith , of reverence , of hope , of anticipated reunion . That the early Christians very ...
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Page 253 - Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams; return Sicilian Muse, And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bells, and Flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use, Of shades and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart Star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Page 104 - In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a burying-place. (There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife ; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife ; and there I buried Leah.) The purchase of the field, and of the cave that is therein, was from the children of Heth.
Page 241 - In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things. And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land.
Page 251 - The eternal regions : Lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom...
Page 297 - But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.
Page 104 - And Joseph went up to bury his father : and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house : only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
Page 375 - Follow'd thee up to joy and bliss for ever. Love led them on, and Faith, who knew them best Thy handmaids...
Page 43 - Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
Page 244 - The influence of religion, however, aided and supported me. I reflected that no human prudence or foresight could possibly have averted my present sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a strange land, yet I was still under the protecting eye of that Providence, who has condescended to call himself the Stranger's Friend.
Page 187 - Tis not because Lord Lindesay's heir To-night at Roslin leads the ball, But that my ladye-mother there Sits lonely in her castle-hall. ' 'Tis not because the ring they ride, And Lindesay at the ring rides well, But that my sire the wine will chide If 'tis not fill'd by Rosabelle.