The Rose of Sharon: A Religious Souvenir

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A. Tompkins and B. B. Mussey, 1849
 

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Side 161 - This is some fellow, Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb Quite from his nature. He cannot flatter, he, An honest mind and plain; he must speak truth, And
Side 263 - And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood, Live: Yea, I said unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
Side 162 - Your hope to please him vain in every plan, Himself should work that wonder if he can; Alas ! his efforts double his distress, He likes yours little and his own still less ; Thus always teasing others, always teased,
Side 148 - nothing but pressing creditors, false friends, and a pack of drunken servants, that your kindness has made unfit for any other family.' Honeywood. ' Then they have the more occasion for being in mine.' Jarvis. ' Soh, what will you have done with him
Side 20 - worn-out winds expire so soft. Behold him in the eventide of life — ■ A life well spent! By unperceived degrees he wears away, Yet, like the sun, seems larger at his setting.
Side 19 - is the book of all others, to be read at all ages and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then to be laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some over-ruling necessity.
Side 19 - not a kindled lamp only, but rather as a natural luminary, shining by the gift of heaven, in whose radiance all souls feel that it is well with them.
Side 19 - We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without gaming something by him. He is the living light-fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near;
Side 160 - with venison and he chooses fish ; With sole — that's just the sort he does not wish. He takes what he at first professed to loathe, And in due time feeds heartily on both.
Side 162 - with venison and he chooses fish; With sole — that's just the sort he does not wish. He takes what he at first professed to loathe, And in due time feeds heartily on both.

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