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Page 186 - Or if chill blust'ring winds, or driving rain,' Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut That from the mountain's side Views wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil." Collins
Page 26 - donet; Quid minuat curas : quid te tibi reddat amicum ; Quid pure tranquillet; honos an dulce lucellum, An secretum iter, et fallentis semita vitae. Me quoties reficit gelidus Digentia rivus, Quern Mandela bibit, rugosus frigore pagus. Quid sentire putas, quid credis, amice, precari ? Sit mihi quod nunc est
Page 29 - precept—" When thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind; for they cannot recompense thee ; for thou shalt be
Page 247 - talon in the waist; I could have crept into any alder"man's thumb ring: a plague of sighing and grief! it " blows a man up like a bladder.
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Page 67 - And Saul said unto Samuel I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD and thy words; because I feared the people and obeyed their
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