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... face . Forerunner of the day's bright reign , And giver of unspeakable delight ! How nature triumphs at thy sight , And looks thanksgiving through her large domain : At thy approach the conscious trees Bend humbly to the 8 The Urn ...
... face . Forerunner of the day's bright reign , And giver of unspeakable delight ! How nature triumphs at thy sight , And looks thanksgiving through her large domain : At thy approach the conscious trees Bend humbly to the 8 The Urn ...
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... face thou art , Knocking at heaven with thy brow : The worky days are the back - part ; The burden of the week lies there , Making the whole to stoop and bow , Till thy release appear . Man had straight forward gone To endless death ...
... face thou art , Knocking at heaven with thy brow : The worky days are the back - part ; The burden of the week lies there , Making the whole to stoop and bow , Till thy release appear . Man had straight forward gone To endless death ...
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... face when he had been angry , he could never have fallen in love with him- self . Thomas Fuller . ON ANGER . In contentions be always passive , never active ; upon the defensive , not the assaulting party ; and then also give a gentle ...
... face when he had been angry , he could never have fallen in love with him- self . Thomas Fuller . ON ANGER . In contentions be always passive , never active ; upon the defensive , not the assaulting party ; and then also give a gentle ...
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... face , and a sword in the hand , and a fury all over ; and , therefore , can never suffer a man to be in a disposition to pray . For prayer is an action and a state of intercourse and desire exactly contrary to this character of anger ...
... face , and a sword in the hand , and a fury all over ; and , therefore , can never suffer a man to be in a disposition to pray . For prayer is an action and a state of intercourse and desire exactly contrary to this character of anger ...
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... faces with smooth flattering Do fawn on you , and your wide praises sing . And when the courting masker louteth low , How free in heart , and trusty too , you know . Spenser . FALSE JOYS OF INTEMPERANCE . For the pleasures of ...
... faces with smooth flattering Do fawn on you , and your wide praises sing . And when the courting masker louteth low , How free in heart , and trusty too , you know . Spenser . FALSE JOYS OF INTEMPERANCE . For the pleasures of ...
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Page 87 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 14 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.
Page 33 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 140 - You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ! As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Page 106 - Implore his aid, in his decisions rest, Secure whate'er he gives, he gives the best. Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd...
Page 87 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : ' Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway ; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings ; It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Page 67 - With blooming gold, and blushes like the morn. Each passing hour sheds tribute from her wings; And still new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him.
Page 90 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, ' Sister Spirit, come away ! ' What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my...
Page 61 - All may of Thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture " for Thy sake " Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold : For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for less be told.