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... produced a volume of sermons , which has suspended for a time every other fashionable topic of the literary kind , and spread as far as any tale of unholy love , mysterious murder , or sentimental crime . But has Dr. Chalmers contented ...
... produced a volume of sermons , which has suspended for a time every other fashionable topic of the literary kind , and spread as far as any tale of unholy love , mysterious murder , or sentimental crime . But has Dr. Chalmers contented ...
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... produces " the fruit of good liv- ing , " and speaks peace in accents not to be mistaken to the trou- bled conscience ; unless , in short , it covers the splendid mechanism of human celebrations , and services , and solemnities , and ...
... produces " the fruit of good liv- ing , " and speaks peace in accents not to be mistaken to the trou- bled conscience ; unless , in short , it covers the splendid mechanism of human celebrations , and services , and solemnities , and ...
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... produce . We had been taught to expect , by common rumour , an epic poem from the hands of Mr. Moore , and having erroneously imagined he must by this time have been left without any thing more to say about eyes and lips and cheeks ...
... produce . We had been taught to expect , by common rumour , an epic poem from the hands of Mr. Moore , and having erroneously imagined he must by this time have been left without any thing more to say about eyes and lips and cheeks ...
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... produced by Mr. Moore has a title to be called , has claims to a nobler use and destination than to the end- less whimperings of these turbaned lovers and their silly sultanas . We have but little hope , however , of ever bringing Mr ...
... produced by Mr. Moore has a title to be called , has claims to a nobler use and destination than to the end- less whimperings of these turbaned lovers and their silly sultanas . We have but little hope , however , of ever bringing Mr ...
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... Zelica sleep , side by side . " So much for the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan . A story not ill told for such a story ; but one which does not appear to us to be calculated to produce any agreeable excitement in the reader Lalla Rookh . 39.
... Zelica sleep , side by side . " So much for the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan . A story not ill told for such a story ; but one which does not appear to us to be calculated to produce any agreeable excitement in the reader Lalla Rookh . 39.
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Seite 47 - How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour when storms are gone, When warring winds have died away, And clouds, beneath the glancing ray, Melt off, and leave the land and sea Sleeping in bright tranquillity...
Seite 90 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Seite 90 - Caesars' palace came The owl's long cry, and, interruptedly, Of distant sentinels the fitful song Begun and died upon the gentle wind. Some cypresses beyond the time-worn breach Appeared to skirt the horizon ; yet they stood Within a bow-shot.
Seite 53 - Alas! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity...
Seite 147 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Seite 189 - And to the end that we should alway remember the exceeding great love of our Master and only Saviour Jesus Christ, thus dying for us, and the innumerable benefits which, by his precious bloodshedding, he hath obtained to us...
Seite 89 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome ; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watch-dog bayed beyond the Tiber ; and More near from out the Caesars...
Seite 276 - ... promises, kindly stepped in, and carried him away, to where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest ! It is during the time that we lived on this farm, that my little story is most eventful.
Seite 162 - This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated; and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself and all the motions thereof are truly and properly sin.
Seite 161 - Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam, (as the Pelagians do vainly talk,) but it is the corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam...