The boor, a poem. [Followed by] A scriptural appendix1829 |
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... mountain forests labour in the gale ; Through rending heaven fierce spirits rush to battle , In lightning clash , and shout in thunder's rattle . V. The calm succeeding , headlong torrents broke : - Vast tumbling rocks and dashing trees ...
... mountain forests labour in the gale ; Through rending heaven fierce spirits rush to battle , In lightning clash , and shout in thunder's rattle . V. The calm succeeding , headlong torrents broke : - Vast tumbling rocks and dashing trees ...
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... nigh , She paused to hear , her master's voice obeyed ; Brought bome , with aching dugs , her mountain store , And made the bowl of present wants run o'er . XXI . Her tinklings stilled , she joins the evening THE BOOR . 7.
... nigh , She paused to hear , her master's voice obeyed ; Brought bome , with aching dugs , her mountain store , And made the bowl of present wants run o'er . XXI . Her tinklings stilled , she joins the evening THE BOOR . 7.
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... the cypress ' shade , As if God's high omniscience to deride , On week's last hour oft reached our mountain cot ; And taught the peasants how to bless their lot . LXIX . In lofty silence , at that solemn hour THE BOOR . 3333 23.
... the cypress ' shade , As if God's high omniscience to deride , On week's last hour oft reached our mountain cot ; And taught the peasants how to bless their lot . LXIX . In lofty silence , at that solemn hour THE BOOR . 3333 23.
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... mountain burns : By Eden's stream kind angels seem to dwell ; At Horeb's foot rage all the fiends of hell . LXXI . There soul - reviving breezes softly blow , ' Mid varied foliage , fruit , and waving wreaths , Till thickening boughs in ...
... mountain burns : By Eden's stream kind angels seem to dwell ; At Horeb's foot rage all the fiends of hell . LXXI . There soul - reviving breezes softly blow , ' Mid varied foliage , fruit , and waving wreaths , Till thickening boughs in ...
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... mountain vigils did his faith - rapt eye Such scenes review : they now benignly rise Upon his storm - scathed path ; its steeps defy , Allure behind the moon and shattered skies , Whose late loud tempest doth his thoughts inspire , To ...
... mountain vigils did his faith - rapt eye Such scenes review : they now benignly rise Upon his storm - scathed path ; its steeps defy , Allure behind the moon and shattered skies , Whose late loud tempest doth his thoughts inspire , To ...
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angels ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY beam behold bliss bondage Boor Boor's bosom breast bright Canaan celestial children of Israel Christ church clouds conscience curse darkness day of vengeance death Deuteron divine dwell e'er earth Eden's Egypt eternal everlasting Ezek faith Father fear fire flame gleams gloom glory grace hear heart heaven Hebrews hell hell's high justice holy honour hope Horeb house of Israel Isaiah xlii Jacob Jazer Jerem Jesus Jochebed John John iii justice king Lebanon life's light Luke man's Matt mind Moab morn Moses mountain night o'er Pharaoh's Pharaoh's daughter praise priests prophets Psalm refracted ray righteousness rise rock round saith the Lord say unto shine sigh smile smite Sodom soul spirit Stanza storm sword thee Thermutis things thou shalt tree truth vengeance viii voice weep wisdom woes wrath xxxiv Zion
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Page 67 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Page 58 - Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain : let all the inhabitants of the land tremble : for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand ; a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness...
Page 66 - I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Page 79 - Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
Page 83 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts : and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people...
Page 76 - Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
Page 78 - And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Page 61 - He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan; and he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, " Where is the Lord God of Elijah?
Page 77 - Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians...
Page 72 - And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying ; Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints...