Playford's Soham Magazine, and Friendly Monitor1847 |
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... scenes of profli- gacy , which have been so broadly played before a vicious audience , will tend to check them in their career of sin ! But when we find the crimes , into which our fallen nature is too often betrayed , recounted with ...
... scenes of profli- gacy , which have been so broadly played before a vicious audience , will tend to check them in their career of sin ! But when we find the crimes , into which our fallen nature is too often betrayed , recounted with ...
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... scene , inspires a feeling of involuntary awe , as if the hardy explorer had intruded into a region where he ought not to be . Frost , it is well known , is a powerful antiseptic : animal sub- stances , may be kept in it without decay ...
... scene , inspires a feeling of involuntary awe , as if the hardy explorer had intruded into a region where he ought not to be . Frost , it is well known , is a powerful antiseptic : animal sub- stances , may be kept in it without decay ...
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... scene so fair By sorrow's sigh ; Forget my latter hours of care , When those I loved in mute despair , Beheld me die . Hear not again that church - yard knell , For grief was wild ; And tears of bitter anguish fell , While fond ones ...
... scene so fair By sorrow's sigh ; Forget my latter hours of care , When those I loved in mute despair , Beheld me die . Hear not again that church - yard knell , For grief was wild ; And tears of bitter anguish fell , While fond ones ...
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... scene to me ! Since last across this narrow path I went , " The soaring lark felt not superior glee , " Nor any human breast more true content . " When the fresh hay was o'er the mea- dow thrown , " Amongst the busy throng I still ...
... scene to me ! Since last across this narrow path I went , " The soaring lark felt not superior glee , " Nor any human breast more true content . " When the fresh hay was o'er the mea- dow thrown , " Amongst the busy throng I still ...
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... scenes of life , there is many an honest and ten- der heart pining with incurable anguish , pierced with the sharpest sting of disap- pointment , bereft of friends , chilled with poverty , racked with disease , scourged by the oppressor ...
... scenes of life , there is many an honest and ten- der heart pining with incurable anguish , pierced with the sharpest sting of disap- pointment , bereft of friends , chilled with poverty , racked with disease , scourged by the oppressor ...
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Page 146 - door, and no man can shut it; for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.— Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world,
Page 177 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then they say no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 146 - Unto the Angel of the CHURCH OF THE LAODICEANS write,— I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Page 67 - Come, my Corinna, come, and coming mark How each field turns a street, each street a park, Made green and trimmed with trees ; see how Devotion gives each house a bough, Or branch ; each porch, each door, ere this, An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white-thorne, neatly interwove.
Page 174 - Death hath broke his girt, And here, alas! hath laid him in the dirt: Or else the ways being foul, twenty to one, He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown. ' Twas such a shifter, that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down; the
Page 141 - pleasant to grow better ; because that is to excel ourselves: it is pleasant even to mortify and subdue our lusts; because that is victory: it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order, within the bounds of reason and religion ; because this is empire.
Page 82 - in his nostrils, in his fore teeth and grinders: in his lips, in his throat, in his shoulders, in his wrists, in his arms, in his fingers. May he be damned in his mouth, in his breast, and in all his inward parts, down to his very stomach! May he be cursed in his veins,
Page 97 - That such monuments, and such actions and observances be instituted, and do commence from the time that the matter of fact was done. The first two rules make it impossible for any such matter of fact to be imposed upon men, at the time when such matter of fact was said to be done, because every man's
Page 157 - But from that hour forgot the smart, And peace bound up my broken heart, In prison I saw him next, condemn'd To meet a traitor's doom at morn ; The tide of lying tongues I stemm'd, And honour'd him, "midst shame and
Page 157 - humbly for relief, That I eould never answer, " Nay": I had not power to ask his name, Whither he went, or whence he came, Yet was there something in his eye, That won my love, I knew not why.