The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir of the Author ...

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Little, Brown, 1860
 

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Side 58 - ... garrulous, but a lively tale, and fraught . ., With matter of delight and food for thought. And if he could in Merlin's glass have seen By whom his tomes to speak our tongue were taught, The old man would have felt as pleased, I ween, As when he won the ear of that great Empress Queen.
Side 110 - A mansion infested by age and by sorrow ; the seat of malady, harassed with pains, haunted with the quality of darkness, and incapable of standing long; such a mansion of the vital soul, let its occupier always cheerfully quit.
Side 21 - Moon had gather'd oft her monthly store Of light, and oft in darkness left the sky, Since Monnema a growing burthen bore Of life and hope. The appointed weeks go by ; And now her hour is come, and none is nigh To help : but human help she needed none. A few short throes endured with scarce a cry, Upon the bank she laid her new-born son, Then slid into the stream, and bathed, and all was done.
Side 123 - O fire! thou hadst a claim in our brother; during his life he subsisted by thy influence in nature; to thee we commit his body: thou emblem of purity, may his spirit be purified on entering a new state of existence !
Side 74 - It was a land of priestcraft, but the priest Believed himself the fables that he taught : Corrupt their forms, and yet those forms at least Preserved a salutary faith that wrought, Maugre the alloy, the saving end it sought. Benevolence had gain'd such empire there, That even superstition had been brought An aspect of humanity to wear, And make the weal of man its first and only care.
Side 197 - A certain crown of flowers used in marriage," says the excellent Bishop Heber (writing from the Carnatic), " has been denounced to me as a device of Satan! And a gentleman has just written to complain that the Danish government of Tranquebar will not allow him to excommunicate some young persons for wearing masks, and acting, as it appears, in a Christmas mummery, or at least in some private rustic theatricals. If this be heathenish, Heaven help the wicked ! But I hope you will not suspect that I...
Side 110 - is dissected in the surgeon's hall, gratis ; and the rich sinner is embowelled in his own apartment at great expense. The robber, exposed to open air, wastes away in hoops of iron ; and the gentleman, confined to a damp vault, moulders away in sheets of lead ; and while the fowls of the air greedily prey upon the one, the vermin of the earth eagerly devour the other.
Side 217 - The chicken were her delight : A Cock and Hen they proved ; And both, like their parents, were virtuous and white. The last act of the Holy Hen Was to rear this precious brood ; and. when Saint Cock and she were dead, This couple, as the lawful heirs, Succeeded in their stead. They also lived seven years ; And they laid eggs but two, From which two milk-white chicken To Cock and Henhood grew ; And always their posterity The self-same course pursue.
Side 110 - A mansion with bones for its rafters and beams ; with nerves and tendons for cords ; with muscles and blood for mortar ; with skin for its outward covering; filled with no sweet perfume, but loaded with...
Side 35 - In bounty hath the Lord created us, In love redeemed. From this authentic creed Let no bewildering sophistry impede The heart's entire assent ; for God is good. Hold firm this faith, and, in whatever need, Doubt not but thou wilt find thy soul endued With all-sufficing strength of heavenly fortitude.

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