Revised edition of 'Men that are gone'.

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1862
 

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Page 6 - And he spake three thousand proverbs : and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar-tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall : he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 30 - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Page 5 - And there was a great cry in Egypt — lamentation and bitter weeping — for there was not a house in which there was not one dead.
Page 23 - WEAK and irresolute is man ; The purpose of to-day, Woven with pains into his plan, To-morrow rends away. The bow well bent and smart the spring, Vice seems already slain, But passion rudely snaps the string, And it revives again.
Page 16 - INNOCENT PLAY. ABROAD in the meadows, to see the young lambs Run sporting about by the side of their dams, With fleeces so clean and so white; Or a nest of young doves, in a large open cage, When they play all in love, without anger or rage : How much...
Page 29 - I am this day about to commit to the silent grave, but in sure and certain hope of a joyful resurrection to eternal life.
Page 17 - Or worn by slowly rolling years, Or broke by sickness in a day, The fading glory disappears, The short-lived beauties die away. 5 Yet these new rising from the tomb, With lustre brighter far shall shine; Revive with ever-during bloom, Safe from diseases and decline.
Page 9 - An honest man, close buttoned to the chin, Broad cloth without, and a warm heart within, Here there is an ellipsis of the participle.
Page 22 - Yorke was called to the bar by the benchers of the Middle Temple...
Page 29 - Itinerancy in 1813, and died in 1846, in the fifty-fourth year of his age, and the thirty-third of his ministry.

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