A Midsummer's Day-dream: Libelløus, Or, A Little Book of the Vision of Shawmut : Libell. I.A satire on the Christian benevolence of Bostonians written after unsuccessful attempts to raise funds in that city for the building of Trinity Church in Pawtucket. |
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20 STATE STREET 222 BROADWAY ADMONISH CRIME adorable altar Anagrammatically angels ardent Baal Bacchus bards some lighter battlement beauty and love behold bitter Blame thyself bondslave Boston Cain caterpillar causa Ceres Christian Corinthian cried crowd of earnest Dagon deceived delectantia malim Scribere deluded delusion divine Doric earth Eternal fabled Falsehood famine fathers footsteps Give me riches glorious goddess of beauty gold golden goodly granite halls hath heart heaven hell idol Jackal JORDAN & WILEY lead thee LIBELL lighter method LITTLE BOOK living dead maiden Mammon MIDSUMMER'S DAY-DREAM mortal moth multitudes Nazareth night ocean onward Penates pestilence which destroys Plutus private devotions prophet quod delectantia malim raptured rejoicing religion sacred Satan Seria cum possim serious bards side silence silver smile snowy girdle sorrow spake Stay the pestilence strange tempest temple thou tithes touched Truth unspotted unto visage VISION OF SHAWMUT voice Whence wine worshippers
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Page 14 - And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee ; then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided ? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Page 10 - Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Page 17 - It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Page 11 - Weak men to follow far fatiguing trade ! The lily peace outshines the silver store ; And life is dearer than the golden ore : Yet money tempts us o'er the desert brown, To every distant mart and wealthy town.
Page 20 - Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
Page 14 - The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
Page 20 - And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Page 19 - None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Page 4 - Thetis' son he bends his care, And plunge the Greeks in all the woes of war: Then bids an empty phantom rise to sight, And thus commands the vision of the night.
Page 8 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.