The Young Gentleman's Book: Containing a Series of Choice Readings in Popular Science and Natural History,together with Retrospective Essays,conversations,literary Reminiscences,etc1834 |
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... heaven - born comeliness ! thou that liftest thy mighty front erect and lovely , amid the sounding waters of ocean's trackless wilderness ! do thou unite in thy most religious strength and moral beauty all that is amiable and refined ...
... heaven - born comeliness ! thou that liftest thy mighty front erect and lovely , amid the sounding waters of ocean's trackless wilderness ! do thou unite in thy most religious strength and moral beauty all that is amiable and refined ...
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... heaven their choral souls , and praised . Above yon cottage on the plain The wreathy smoke ascends ; A silent emblem , with the main Of sailing clouds it blends ; Like a departed spirit gone Up froin low earth to VARIOUS VIEWS OF THE ...
... heaven their choral souls , and praised . Above yon cottage on the plain The wreathy smoke ascends ; A silent emblem , with the main Of sailing clouds it blends ; Like a departed spirit gone Up froin low earth to VARIOUS VIEWS OF THE ...
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... heaven , In motley groups the haymakers appear , Seeking their labour blythe ; Summer ! to thee earth's richest wealth is given , Thou Croesus of the year ! - * * * THE RIO DE LA PLATA . - This river is flooded at certain periods , and ...
... heaven , In motley groups the haymakers appear , Seeking their labour blythe ; Summer ! to thee earth's richest wealth is given , Thou Croesus of the year ! - * * * THE RIO DE LA PLATA . - This river is flooded at certain periods , and ...
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... heaven thy only boundary . Thee , at thy birth , the Almighty Maker chose , Aye to resound his everlasting praise : Thy solemn sounding diapason suits The theme of His tremendous attributes , When thy full waves a lofty chorus raise ...
... heaven thy only boundary . Thee , at thy birth , the Almighty Maker chose , Aye to resound his everlasting praise : Thy solemn sounding diapason suits The theme of His tremendous attributes , When thy full waves a lofty chorus raise ...
Side 33
... Heaven seemed written on the soil ! For miles around there was life neither in earth or water . I stopped on the rock for half an hour , my feet were cut in many places with the sharp flints that abound there , and it was with dif ...
... Heaven seemed written on the soil ! For miles around there was life neither in earth or water . I stopped on the rock for half an hour , my feet were cut in many places with the sharp flints that abound there , and it was with dif ...
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Side 306 - THOU art, O God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from Thee : Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are Thine.
Side 292 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter ; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of GOD, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season...
Side 286 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me ; Because I delivered the poor that cried, And the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that, was ready to perish came upon me: And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Side 203 - ... the calm. Not a pastoral song has a pleasanter tune than ye speak to my heart, little wildings of June : of old ruinous castles ye tell, where I thought it delightful your beauties to find, when the magic of Nature first breathed on my mind, and your blossoms were part of her spell.
Side 441 - I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together — I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion.
Side 308 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Side 308 - Vainly we offer each ample oblation, Vainly with gifts would His favour secure ; Richer by far is the heart's adoration, Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor.
Side 294 - O'er ocean's dark expanse To hail the Pleiades, or catch The full moon's earliest glance, That brings into the homesick mind All we have loved and left behind. Night is the time for care : Brooding on hours misspent, To see the spectre of Despair Come to our lonely tent ; Like Brutus, midst his slumbering host...
Side 295 - And commune there alone with God. Night is the time for death ; When all around is peace, Calmly to yield the weary breath, From sin and suffering cease, Think of heaven's bliss, and give the sign To parting friends ; — such death be mine.
Side 306 - When youthful spring around us breathes, Thy spirit warms her fragrant sigh ; And every flower the summer wreathes Is born beneath that kindling eye. Where'er we turn, thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.