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... doth enter . Sweet young sunbeams do subdue Angry aged winter . Blasts are mild and seas are calm , Every meadow flows with balm , The earth wears all her riches , Harmonious birds sing such a psalm As ear and heart bewitches . Reserve ...
... doth enter . Sweet young sunbeams do subdue Angry aged winter . Blasts are mild and seas are calm , Every meadow flows with balm , The earth wears all her riches , Harmonious birds sing such a psalm As ear and heart bewitches . Reserve ...
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... doth consist more in contemplation or action . " He instances on the one hand the opinion of " many cloisteral men of great learning and devotion , " who prefer contemplation before action , because they hold that " God enjoys himself ...
... doth consist more in contemplation or action . " He instances on the one hand the opinion of " many cloisteral men of great learning and devotion , " who prefer contemplation before action , because they hold that " God enjoys himself ...
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... doth pass , * * When he some heaps of hills hath overwent , Begins to think on rest , his journey spent , Till , mounting some tall mountain , he doth find More heights before him than he left behind . Whether Pope's or Drummond's , the ...
... doth pass , * * When he some heaps of hills hath overwent , Begins to think on rest , his journey spent , Till , mounting some tall mountain , he doth find More heights before him than he left behind . Whether Pope's or Drummond's , the ...
Page 117
... doth the Power that man adores ordain Their doom , nor heed the suppliant's appeal ? Is all that desperate valor acts in vain ? And counsel sage , and patriotic zeal , The veteran's skill , youth's fire , and manhood's heart of steel ...
... doth the Power that man adores ordain Their doom , nor heed the suppliant's appeal ? Is all that desperate valor acts in vain ? And counsel sage , and patriotic zeal , The veteran's skill , youth's fire , and manhood's heart of steel ...
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... doth neigh ; riding farther , he heard a cocke crow , and said , Doth the cocke neigh too ? and therefore Cockney or Cocknie , by inversion thus : incock , q . incoctus - i.e . , raw or unripe in Country - men's affaires . " This does ...
... doth neigh ; riding farther , he heard a cocke crow , and said , Doth the cocke neigh too ? and therefore Cockney or Cocknie , by inversion thus : incock , q . incoctus - i.e . , raw or unripe in Country - men's affaires . " This does ...
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Page 739 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 711 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 579 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too; We've fought the Bear before, and while Britons shall be true The Russians shall not have Constantinople.
Page 659 - Many of them also which used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Page 197 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 109 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...
Page 739 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Page 616 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 301 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 250 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.