Tait's Edinburgh magazine, Volume 241857 |
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... thou hope and fear vex not , where faith , after long art gone where sin and sorrow come not , where wanderings , leaves man on heaven's shore . I wept then that I had lost a dear friend ; but selfish was that sorrow - for he fell ...
... thou hope and fear vex not , where faith , after long art gone where sin and sorrow come not , where wanderings , leaves man on heaven's shore . I wept then that I had lost a dear friend ; but selfish was that sorrow - for he fell ...
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... thou art left to p'ne . How joyfully the bridegroom from the Altar led away Celestine , in her beauty , but she sigheth all the day ; At her heart a sorrow licth , and , ere night , the bridal bed Was a conch for poor Celestine , in her ...
... thou art left to p'ne . How joyfully the bridegroom from the Altar led away Celestine , in her beauty , but she sigheth all the day ; At her heart a sorrow licth , and , ere night , the bridal bed Was a conch for poor Celestine , in her ...
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... thou , if haply so thou may'st , advance That blessed consummation ? Wouldst thou speed The lingering hour of Earth's deliverance ? Arise - the naked clothe , the hungry feed , The sick and wounded tend , -soothe the distressed . If thy ...
... thou , if haply so thou may'st , advance That blessed consummation ? Wouldst thou speed The lingering hour of Earth's deliverance ? Arise - the naked clothe , the hungry feed , The sick and wounded tend , -soothe the distressed . If thy ...
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... thou not know that in cases in which only the " canaille " are interested , the removal of an injustice presents insuperable difficulties ? How much more when the aristocracy " derive a positive advantage from it ? And such is the case ...
... thou not know that in cases in which only the " canaille " are interested , the removal of an injustice presents insuperable difficulties ? How much more when the aristocracy " derive a positive advantage from it ? And such is the case ...
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... Thou of a thousand pangs hast part ; Thou lookest up , thou gazest on The death of HIM who was thy son ! The flower - pots at my window Were wet with tears like dew , As I , in the early morning , Gathered these flowers for you ...
... Thou of a thousand pangs hast part ; Thou lookest up , thou gazest on The death of HIM who was thy son ! The flower - pots at my window Were wet with tears like dew , As I , in the early morning , Gathered these flowers for you ...
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Page 99 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee ; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God ; where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried ; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 141 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Page 335 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 17 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps...
Page 99 - And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 459 - Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? "
Page 273 - But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God!
Page 207 - The Karens are a meek, peaceful race, simple and credulous, with many of the softer virtues, and few flagrant vices. Though greatly addicted to drunkenness, extremely filthy and indolent in their habits, their morals, in other respects, are superior to many more civilized races.
Page 427 - I was in education, and made up my mind that he should not labour under the same defect, but that I would put him to a good school, and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man; and how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours...
Page 20 - It is the same ! — for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free ; Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow ; Nought may endure but Mutability.