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... heaven , who welcomed him there , crying , ' Are you the famous Sir Godfrey Kneller from England ? ' and then embraced him , and paid him ' many pretty compli- ments , ' said Sir Godfrey , ' on the art we both had followed while in this ...
... heaven , who welcomed him there , crying , ' Are you the famous Sir Godfrey Kneller from England ? ' and then embraced him , and paid him ' many pretty compli- ments , ' said Sir Godfrey , ' on the art we both had followed while in this ...
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... heaven before me , and in gleaming light ever afterwards continued ; then had my ME , for the first time , seen itself , and for ever . Deceptions of memory are scarcely conceivable here , in regard to an event occurring altogether ...
... heaven before me , and in gleaming light ever afterwards continued ; then had my ME , for the first time , seen itself , and for ever . Deceptions of memory are scarcely conceivable here , in regard to an event occurring altogether ...
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... heaven , the Valhalla , all who were tainted with cowardice ; and over a battle - field , the priests taught , went the Valkyrs , or choosers of the slain , heavenly messengers , or angels , who took care only to admit the valiant . The ...
... heaven , the Valhalla , all who were tainted with cowardice ; and over a battle - field , the priests taught , went the Valkyrs , or choosers of the slain , heavenly messengers , or angels , who took care only to admit the valiant . The ...
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... heaven , reflects it to the dark corners of the earth , lighting up what is obscure and dismal , but losing no particle of the divine rays itself . SELF - CULTURE , SELF - RESTRAINT , AND SELF 72 122 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
... heaven , reflects it to the dark corners of the earth , lighting up what is obscure and dismal , but losing no particle of the divine rays itself . SELF - CULTURE , SELF - RESTRAINT , AND SELF 72 122 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
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... heaven , as the epigraph upon Messrs . Bagster's admi- rable editions of the Scriptures tells us - nor in being able to solve an equation , or calculate an eclipse ; but it does consist in having so instructed the soul that it shall be ...
... heaven , as the epigraph upon Messrs . Bagster's admi- rable editions of the Scriptures tells us - nor in being able to solve an equation , or calculate an eclipse ; but it does consist in having so instructed the soul that it shall be ...
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Page 108 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 62 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 178 - O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Page 181 - But that vast portion, lastly, of the working class which, raw and half-developed, has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven^ born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes, — to this vast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.
Page 8 - Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.