Mysteries of City Life; Or, Stray Leaves from the World's Book: Being a Series of Tales, Sketches, Incidents, and Scenes, Founded Upon the Notes of a Home MissionaryJ.W. Moore, 1849 - 408 strán (strany) |
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Strana 10
... beautiful verdure , and might be called the emblem of poetry . A seventh may be likened unto the cypress , with " Its slender leaf . " Others may be compared to the spiral pine , and the cedar , in their eternal green , and these are ...
... beautiful verdure , and might be called the emblem of poetry . A seventh may be likened unto the cypress , with " Its slender leaf . " Others may be compared to the spiral pine , and the cedar , in their eternal green , and these are ...
Strana 15
... beautiful and fairy like . The country looks like a dream of paradise , and its meandering brooks the waters of life ! —The storms and the tempests touch not the homes of such as these , but pass away , and their music sounds as the ...
... beautiful and fairy like . The country looks like a dream of paradise , and its meandering brooks the waters of life ! —The storms and the tempests touch not the homes of such as these , but pass away , and their music sounds as the ...
Strana 16
... beautiful before him ; a glowing picture . He claps his little hands , and dances with joy , and all things around and about him smile , and seemingly participate in his transports . Is not this true happiness ? and yet old age , sour ...
... beautiful before him ; a glowing picture . He claps his little hands , and dances with joy , and all things around and about him smile , and seemingly participate in his transports . Is not this true happiness ? and yet old age , sour ...
Strana 25
... beautiful Hymn , written by Bishop Heber . * From Greenland's icy mountains , From India's coral strand , Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river , From many a palmy plain , They call us to ...
... beautiful Hymn , written by Bishop Heber . * From Greenland's icy mountains , From India's coral strand , Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river , From many a palmy plain , They call us to ...
Strana 27
... beautiful productions of our gifted writers , are set aside for such works as we have alluded to . We must have some standard whereby our literary character , and the morality of the press can be judged . Are there not men of sufficient ...
... beautiful productions of our gifted writers , are set aside for such works as we have alluded to . We must have some standard whereby our literary character , and the morality of the press can be judged . Are there not men of sufficient ...
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Strana 64 - Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
Strana 25 - Messiah's name ! 4 Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole : Till o'er our ransom'd nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Strana 25 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone...
Strana 382 - For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Strana 264 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Strana 25 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand; Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Strana 70 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Strana 251 - Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Strana 107 - Of their own limbs : how many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery ! Sore pierc'd by wintry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty...
Strana 211 - Oh grief, beyond all other griefs, when fate First leaves the young heart lone and desolate In the wide world, without that only tie For which it loved to live or feared to die...