His Excellency, Or, Aline Carruthers and Her FriendsWilliam Oliphant and Company, 1875 - 224 pages |
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Page 24 - The Judge ascends His awful throne, He makes each secret sin be known, And all with shame confess their own. O then, what interest shall I make, To save my last important stake When the most just have cause to quake ? Thou mighty, formidable King, Thou mercy's unexhausted spring, Some comfortable pity bring ! Forget not what my ransom cost, Nor let my dear-bought soul be lost In storms of guilty terror tost.
Page 17 - Such as gleam in ancient lore ; And the singing of the sailors, And the answer from the shore ! Most of all, the Spanish ballad Haunts me oft, and tarries long, Of the noble Count Arnaldos And the sailor's mystic song. Like the long waves on a sea-beach...
Page 160 - Grant to little children Visions bright of Thee ; Guard the sailors tossing On the deep blue sea. 5...
Page 177 - Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes : Each morning sees some task begun, Each evening sees its close : Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.
Page 163 - Mr. Hutchinson was seconded by general Lumley, who urged that the duke of Ormond had on all occasions given signal proofs of his affection for his country, as well as of personal courage ; and that he had generously expended the best part of his estate, by living abroad in a most noble and splendid manner, for the honour of his sovereign. Sir Joseph Jekyll said, if there was room for mercy, he hoped it would be...
Page 120 - The heroes are human as are all others who enter into this history, and may err, and as 'into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary,' so we may find it to have been for them and their descendants.
Page 70 - It is, however, expressively added : " Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him." But in the course of time, Pharaoh also dreamed two dreams which very much disturbed him; and as no one among the wise men of Egypt could be found to interpret them, the difficulty brought Joseph to the recollection of the chief butler, and he exclaimed, " I do remember my faults this day.
Page 81 - That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them ; Why I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time ; Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on my own deformity...
Page 165 - Perfons endeavour'd to aggravate the Duke of Ormond's Faults, by charging upon him the Riots and Tumults which the Populace committed daily in many Places ; but that he durft averr, that his Grace did no Ways countenance thofe diforders ; and if the Difaffefted made ufe of his Name, unknown to him, his Grace ought not to fuffer for it.
Page 92 - ... but holiness is as far above wisdom as Christ is above Socrates. If Solomon had only been wise enough to choose this, if he had only felt his greatest weakness and his deepest need, and asked for a pure and holy heart, how rich beyond expression would have been the results of that vision, — rich not only for this world, but for that which is to come : rich in the approval of the living God ; rich in the salvation of his immortal soul ; rich in an entrance into that heavenly kingdom which shall...