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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... strange as it is lamentably true . And that this should come to pass so frequently merely to pander to a vitiated appetite , or from the lack of exercising that simple resolution which should say , " Hold ! enough ! " before the ...
... strange as it is lamentably true . And that this should come to pass so frequently merely to pander to a vitiated appetite , or from the lack of exercising that simple resolution which should say , " Hold ! enough ! " before the ...
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... strange children patter up and down the passages in which I used to walk with my sister Sophy in my arms . We are no longer children ; Sophy is seventeen and I am twenty- one , and we live with our uncle , Geoffrey Champion , rector of ...
... strange children patter up and down the passages in which I used to walk with my sister Sophy in my arms . We are no longer children ; Sophy is seventeen and I am twenty- one , and we live with our uncle , Geoffrey Champion , rector of ...
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... strange that I loved my cousin when to love and praise him was to give my uncle the only tribute he cared to receive ? Is it strange that I set no check on my affection when it could thus shape itself into grati- tude for the goodness ...
... strange that I loved my cousin when to love and praise him was to give my uncle the only tribute he cared to receive ? Is it strange that I set no check on my affection when it could thus shape itself into grati- tude for the goodness ...
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... strange in the sound of it to - night . “ Bernard , Bernard , do you think it's a pretty name , Patty ? " " I don't know , darling . I like it better than any other name , because it means him . " " I don't understand you , Patty ...
... strange in the sound of it to - night . “ Bernard , Bernard , do you think it's a pretty name , Patty ? " " I don't know , darling . I like it better than any other name , because it means him . " " I don't understand you , Patty ...
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... strange if I had been altogether free from that anxious watch- fulness , those vague fears , which wait upon all earthly affections . She was so dear to me , so beautiful in her confiding love , her inno- cent truthfulness , that it was ...
... strange if I had been altogether free from that anxious watch- fulness , those vague fears , which wait upon all earthly affections . She was so dear to me , so beautiful in her confiding love , her inno- cent truthfulness , that it was ...
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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
Popular passages
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.