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... o'er a smiling land , And read their history in a nation's eyes , Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing Virtues , but their Crimes confin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne , And shut the gates of ...
... o'er a smiling land , And read their history in a nation's eyes , Their lot forbade : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing Virtues , but their Crimes confin'd ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne , And shut the gates of ...
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... o'er Meanwhile , Opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days ; Each want of happiness by Hope supplied , And each vacuity of sense , by Pride : These build as fast as Knowledge can destroy ; In Folly's ...
... o'er Meanwhile , Opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days ; Each want of happiness by Hope supplied , And each vacuity of sense , by Pride : These build as fast as Knowledge can destroy ; In Folly's ...
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... O'er the chill air , in wild electric play ! — Sublimely fierce , or delicately gay , The Borealis , like a creature , spread Its length of living glory o'er their head , And seemed exulting with victorious light , To mock the darkness ...
... O'er the chill air , in wild electric play ! — Sublimely fierce , or delicately gay , The Borealis , like a creature , spread Its length of living glory o'er their head , And seemed exulting with victorious light , To mock the darkness ...
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... on the rising Race ; And scatter with a free , though frugal hand , Light golden showers of Plenty o'er the Land ; But Tyranny has fixed her empire there , To check their tender Hopes with chilling Fear , And THE ALLEGORY . 61.
... on the rising Race ; And scatter with a free , though frugal hand , Light golden showers of Plenty o'er the Land ; But Tyranny has fixed her empire there , To check their tender Hopes with chilling Fear , And THE ALLEGORY . 61.
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... o'er the unbending corn , and skims along the main . In the following lines from Horace there is an admirable blending of the truthful with the hyperbolic : - Care climbs the Vessel's brazen prow ; Sits fast upon the Racer's steed : Her ...
... o'er the unbending corn , and skims along the main . In the following lines from Horace there is an admirable blending of the truthful with the hyperbolic : - Care climbs the Vessel's brazen prow ; Sits fast upon the Racer's steed : Her ...
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Page 101 - When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder, then did He see it, and declare it : He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Page 123 - So may the outward shows be least themselves : The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text...
Page 53 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar, Wait the great teacher, Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is, but always to be blest ; The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 90 - I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return ; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine : the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Page 124 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast ; keep, then, the path ; For Emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue ; if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost.
Page 48 - Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite ; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age ;* Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before ; Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er!
Page 78 - And, besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue ; and to virtue, knowledge ; And to knowledge, temperance ; and to temperance, patience ; and to patience, godliness ; And to godliness, brotherly kindness ; and to brotherly kindness, charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 110 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Page 52 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Page 114 - Euphrosyne, And by men heart-easing Mirth; Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...