The Watch Tower: Vol. 1 No. 1, Volume 1, Issue 1Watch Tower - 380 pages The first printing of the 19th century Church of England publication "The Watch Tower" |
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... dear to me , My angel boy - my Charlie . Long years have pass'd , and my hair is grey , Since the day I parted with Charlie . One summer eve I went to see The grave beneath the cedar tree In the old churchyard , where buried lay My ...
... dear to me , My angel boy - my Charlie . Long years have pass'd , and my hair is grey , Since the day I parted with Charlie . One summer eve I went to see The grave beneath the cedar tree In the old churchyard , where buried lay My ...
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... dear objects of your earthly hopes and love lie buried one by one in a dark hole beneath the churchyard yew - it matters not which phase your correction takes , -until you can say , with the sublime faith of the Shunammite woman , " It ...
... dear objects of your earthly hopes and love lie buried one by one in a dark hole beneath the churchyard yew - it matters not which phase your correction takes , -until you can say , with the sublime faith of the Shunammite woman , " It ...
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... dear and good friend who has long since gone to receive his reward . He either did not know of THE MAGDALEN HOSPITAL , or thought its scope was confined to the professional harlot , or shrank from exposing the poor bruised reed to the ...
... dear and good friend who has long since gone to receive his reward . He either did not know of THE MAGDALEN HOSPITAL , or thought its scope was confined to the professional harlot , or shrank from exposing the poor bruised reed to the ...
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... dear ; we will try it for a few years , at all events , provided our cousins will take him . I shall tell them to work him hard , and to keep his nose to the grinding- stone . " The country cousins were consulted , and said they would ...
... dear ; we will try it for a few years , at all events , provided our cousins will take him . I shall tell them to work him hard , and to keep his nose to the grinding- stone . " The country cousins were consulted , and said they would ...
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... dear husband when he was with you ; from all appearance you have won a soul from the burning . I hope God will send you a blessing for it . " Your obedient Servant , The next is from the convict himself : - " REVEREND SIR , -I owe G ...
... dear husband when he was with you ; from all appearance you have won a soul from the burning . I hope God will send you a blessing for it . " Your obedient Servant , The next is from the convict himself : - " REVEREND SIR , -I owe G ...
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amongst amusement Annesley's beautiful better bishop Caliban upon Setebos called cellular prison chaplain Charlie Christ Christian Church clergyman convict cousin Bernard creature dark darling dear death Euston Road eyes face fancy father feel flowers garden give Gwenhwyfar hand happy heard heart Heaven Helen Helen read holy honour hope hour human Jaffa John Locksley kind knew labour lady Lawrence Annesley Lifford live London look Lord mammon matter mind morning nature navvies never night Oliver Goldsmith once Palestrina Patty poor prison prison character psalmody rectory remember rhyme Sandycoast seemed SENSATION NOVELS Sir George Grey sister smile Sophy Sophy's sorrow soul speak spirit strange suffering sweet talk tell tender things thou thought tion told truth uncle Geoffrey uncle's wife woman words young
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Page 30 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 5 - Buy those things that we have need of against the feast ; or, that he should give something to the poor. He then having received the sop went immediately out : and it was night. Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
Page 231 - Touch her not scornfully; Think of her mournfully, Gently and humanly; Not of the stains of her; All that remains of her Now is pure womanly.
Page 130 - Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Page 214 - WHAT slender Youth bedew'd with liquid odours Courts thee on Roses in some pleasant Cave, Pyrrha for whom bind'st thou In wreaths thy golden Hair, Plain in thy neatness? O how oft shall he On Faith and changed Gods complain : and Seas Rough with black winds and storms Unwonted shall admire : Who now enjoys thee credulous, all Gold, Who always vacant, always amiable Hopes thee ; of flattering gales Unmindful.
Page 15 - And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: and they shall see his face and his name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
Page 145 - His happy home, the ground. To left and right, The cuckoo told his name to all the hills ; The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm ; The redcap whistled ; and the nightingale Sang loud, as tho
Page 229 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 226 - SHOULD you ask me, whence these stories ? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers...
Page 34 - But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.