The Passion Flower, Oplag 26

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S.C. Reid., 1836
 

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Side 113 - And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. 46 All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.
Side 148 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Side 102 - Do what he will, he cannot realize Half he conceives — the glorious vision flies Go where he may, he cannot hope to find The truth, the beauty pictured in his mind.
Side 148 - O the soft commerce ! O the tender ties, Close twisted with the fibres of the heart ! Which, broken, break them, and drain off the, soul Of human joy, and make it pain to live. — A,nd is it then to live ? When such friends part, Tis the survivor dies.
Side 148 - Oh! who the exquisite delight can tell, The joy which mutual confidence imparts ? Or who can paint the charm unspeakable Which links in tender bands two faithful hearts ? In vain...
Side 138 - Steele's papers in the Spectator. It purports to be a letter to his wife. He says. " It is impossible for me to look back on many evils and pains which I have suffered since we came together, without a pleasure which is not to be expressed from the proofs I have...
Side 112 - It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense : go out of the sanctuary, for thou hast trespassed ; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD GOD.
Side 102 - To deck the honour'd paths of just and good, Has added bright Imagination's rays : Where Virtue, rising from the awful depth Of Truth's mysterious bosom, doth forsake The...
Side 100 - Rhodes, who flourished about the year 328 before Christ, that, during the seven years he was employed in painting the hunting piece of Jalysus, who is supposed to be the founder of the state of Rhodes, he lived entirely upon lupines and water — with an idea that this aliment would give him greater flights of fancy.
Side 149 - ... which is not thine. MILTON. 0 nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still ; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly Hours lead on propitious May. MILTON. Oh ! if there be an elysium on earth, — ' It is this — When two that are link'd in one heavenly tie Love on through all ills, and love on till they die.

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