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... eye be single , thy whole body shall be full of light . " MAN PARALYZED BY FATE . The senses of men are usually blunted and dead- ened , when fate lays a heavy hand upon them . THE MIND OF MAN IN SLEEP . The mind freed from the shackles ...
... eye be single , thy whole body shall be full of light . " MAN PARALYZED BY FATE . The senses of men are usually blunted and dead- ened , when fate lays a heavy hand upon them . THE MIND OF MAN IN SLEEP . The mind freed from the shackles ...
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... EYE . Every one has his faults , but we see not the wallet that is behind . Burns says : - " O wad some power the ... eyes , In looking on the happy Autumn fields , And thinking of the days that are no more . " THE LOVE - SICK . Peer ...
... EYE . Every one has his faults , but we see not the wallet that is behind . Burns says : - " O wad some power the ... eyes , In looking on the happy Autumn fields , And thinking of the days that are no more . " THE LOVE - SICK . Peer ...
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... eyes A sudden darkness spreads , and sighs And tremors shake my frame . MARTIN . PALSIED OLD AGE . Till hoary age shall steal on thee , With loitering step and trembling knee , And palsied head , that ever bent , To all in all things ...
... eyes A sudden darkness spreads , and sighs And tremors shake my frame . MARTIN . PALSIED OLD AGE . Till hoary age shall steal on thee , With loitering step and trembling knee , And palsied head , that ever bent , To all in all things ...
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... eyes , men as you are of the most cultivated mind . Rocks and deserts re - echo to their voice ; even the wildest animals turn and listen to the music of their words ; and shall we , who have been brought up to the noblest pursuits ...
... eyes , men as you are of the most cultivated mind . Rocks and deserts re - echo to their voice ; even the wildest animals turn and listen to the music of their words ; and shall we , who have been brought up to the noblest pursuits ...
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... eyes . SUSPICION . Men not only forget the mighty deeds which have been performed by their fellow - citizens , but even suspect them of the most nefarious designs . THE THOUGHTS ARE UNFETTERED . Our thoughts are free and contemplate ...
... eyes . SUSPICION . Men not only forget the mighty deeds which have been performed by their fellow - citizens , but even suspect them of the most nefarious designs . THE THOUGHTS ARE UNFETTERED . Our thoughts are free and contemplate ...
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able bear beauty become begin better body born bring cause character close comes common danger death deeds delight desire divine earth effect enjoy everything evil expresses eyes fall fame fate favor fear feel follow fortune gift give given glory gods gold grief hand happy hast hath heart heaven honor hope human idea Italy kind king labor leaves less light live look Lord lost master means mind nature never night noble once pass passion peace pleasure poet poor possess praise present prosperity proverb punishment reason received regard riches Romans says Shakespeare short soul speaks spirit thee things thou art thoughts true truth turn virtue whole wicked wisdom wise wish wretched youth
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Page 644 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,...
Page 86 - ... but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 548 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Page 555 - A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Page 568 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 98 - As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. " If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 348 - For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Page 242 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 233 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold, Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
Page 131 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.