Rock Honeycomb: Broken Pieces of Sir Philip Sidney's Psalter Laid Up in Store for English Homes, Part 1 |
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ROCK HONEYCOMB BROKEN PIECES O Philip Sir Sidney, 1554-1586,John 1819-1900 Ruskin,Mary Sidney Herbert Countess Pembroke No preview available - 2016 |
Rock Honeycomb. Broken Pieces of Sir Philip Sidney's Psalter. Laid Up in ... John Ruskin,Philip Sidney, Sir No preview available - 2015 |
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accent beautiful blessing Brantwood causeless children of men command couplet David death deeds dost doth earth English entirely ev'n evil expression eyes faithful fear feeling foes force George's schools give glory God's grace hand hate hath hear heart heav'nly heaven Hebrew holy honour Israel Jehovah judgment justice King Lord meaning melody mercy mercy fall metre mind mischief modern never paraphrase poor praise pray prayer psalm Psalter quatrain race reader rejoice rhyme RHYTHM.-Octave RHYTHM.-Sixfold righteous sense Septuagint shalt shame Sidney Sidney's sing sinners Sir Philip song soul spright stand stanza stay strength sung Sweet Lord syllable tabernacle terza rima thee thine thou art thou hast thought thy face thy name tongue trochaic true trust truth unto usury verse vex'd VIII vile voice vulgar Vulgate wicked wilt words
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Page xxxvii - For a thousand years in Thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; In the evening it is cut...
Page 84 - A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, I WILL love thee, O Lord, my strength.
Page xxxvi - Walk about Zion, and go round about her : Tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, Consider her palaces ; That ye may tell it to the generation following : For this God is our God for ever and ever : He will be our guide even unto death.
Page 11 - Yet know this too, that God did take When He chose me, a godly one. Such one, I say, that when I make My crying plaints to Him alone, He will give good ear to my moan.
Page iii - Is any sick among you, let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up ; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
Page 44 - VIII But nak'd, before thine eyes All wrong and mischief lies : For of them in thy hands The balance ev'nly stands : 405 But who aright poor-minded be, Commit their cause, — themselves, — to thee, The succour of the succourless, The father of the fatherless.
Page 89 - Is not he blind that doth not find The tabernacle builded There, by his grace, for sun's fair face, In beams of beauty guilded ? VI.
Page 13 - Whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed; Give unto Thy servants that peace which the world cannot give; that both our hearts may be set to obey Thy commandments, and also that by Thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness; through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Page 57 - How long, O Lord, shall I forgotten be? What, ever? How long wilt thou thy hidden face from me Dissever ? How long shall I consult with carefull sprite In anguish ? How long shall I with foes' triumphant might Thus languish?
Page xxviii - Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away...