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... gazing on the convulsions of the dying animal , the trumpet sounded a second time , and the whole company sung together , the sacrificing priest leading and directing them . Distinct above all , yet low and stedfast rather than loud , I ...
... gazing on the convulsions of the dying animal , the trumpet sounded a second time , and the whole company sung together , the sacrificing priest leading and directing them . Distinct above all , yet low and stedfast rather than loud , I ...
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... gaze of his thronging companions the regular features and large dark eyes which characterise Athenian beauty . " Člodius has all the luck to night , " cried Ligarius . Not so , by Hercules , " said Marcus Coelius ; " the girl is fairly ...
... gaze of his thronging companions the regular features and large dark eyes which characterise Athenian beauty . " Člodius has all the luck to night , " cried Ligarius . Not so , by Hercules , " said Marcus Coelius ; " the girl is fairly ...
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... gaze upon her , as she sate in the arbour he had woven for her , all wreathed over with the broad leaved hop and the odorous honeysuckle , with deep blushing moss roses and pale white roses hanging in clusters about its green sides ...
... gaze upon her , as she sate in the arbour he had woven for her , all wreathed over with the broad leaved hop and the odorous honeysuckle , with deep blushing moss roses and pale white roses hanging in clusters about its green sides ...
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... gaze of Kirk , who said nothing , but filled a glass with wine , and held it out to her . " Thank you , Sir , " she said , " but indeed I cannot drink wine just now . You were so kind as to admit me to your presence , and therefore I ...
... gaze of Kirk , who said nothing , but filled a glass with wine , and held it out to her . " Thank you , Sir , " she said , " but indeed I cannot drink wine just now . You were so kind as to admit me to your presence , and therefore I ...
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... gazing there , she half resolved to flee away far over the quiet fields , and never return again to those whom she loved ; so that she might never hear of her brother again , and never see him , till all doubt and terror had passed away ...
... gazing there , she half resolved to flee away far over the quiet fields , and never return again to those whom she loved ; so that she might never hear of her brother again , and never see him , till all doubt and terror had passed away ...
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Page 111 - ALMIGHTY God, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity...
Page 6 - Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on, Until the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Page 363 - This should have been a noble creature: he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled; as it is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness, And mind and dust, and passions and pure thoughts, Mix'd, and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive.
Page 361 - My haunt, and the main region of my song. —Beauty— a living Presence of the earth, Surpassing the most fair ideal Forms Which craft of delicate Spirits hath composed From earth's materials— waits upon my steps; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbour.
Page 21 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Page 383 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony: That Orpheus...
Page 111 - ... that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom ; that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy Name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 364 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook his former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in his honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect ? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled.
Page 364 - Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had been happy; but this clay will sink Its spark immortal, envying it the light To which it mounts, as if to break the link That keeps us from yon heaven which woos us to its brink.
Page 110 - My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing the fire kindled : and at the last I...