The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 2Francis S. Wiggins, 1832 |
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... hope , like the rainbow , a creature of light , Is born - like the rainbow - in tears . 1 THE HUMA . BY LOUISA P. SMITH . Fly on ! nor touch thy wing , bright bird , Too near our shaded earth , Or the warbling , now so sweetly heard ...
... hope , like the rainbow , a creature of light , Is born - like the rainbow - in tears . 1 THE HUMA . BY LOUISA P. SMITH . Fly on ! nor touch thy wing , bright bird , Too near our shaded earth , Or the warbling , now so sweetly heard ...
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... hope , " now they have entered the " palace of the glorious king , " and the groaning of the prisoners appointed to die , " has been exchanged for those " songs of the redeemed , " and that " everlasting joy , " which shall be " upon ...
... hope , " now they have entered the " palace of the glorious king , " and the groaning of the prisoners appointed to die , " has been exchanged for those " songs of the redeemed , " and that " everlasting joy , " which shall be " upon ...
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... hope that the voyager , who sails no more on an earthly sea , shall hoist the sails of immortality on a sea of bliss . The Mariner's Church in Portland , stands at the head of Commercial and Long wharves ; it covers 82 feet on Fore ...
... hope that the voyager , who sails no more on an earthly sea , shall hoist the sails of immortality on a sea of bliss . The Mariner's Church in Portland , stands at the head of Commercial and Long wharves ; it covers 82 feet on Fore ...
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... hope of regaining it , had determined to visit the sunny vine hills of France ! and inhale the pure air of Italy . His friends , as they bade him adieu , believed it was the last farewell , and he himself , as his native shores faded ...
... hope of regaining it , had determined to visit the sunny vine hills of France ! and inhale the pure air of Italy . His friends , as they bade him adieu , believed it was the last farewell , and he himself , as his native shores faded ...
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... hope and happiness of how many hearts may go with it to old ocean's silent chasms ! The ship's company were collected and stood around , gazing upon the cold , placid countenance which they were about to consign with all its beauty to ...
... hope and happiness of how many hearts may go with it to old ocean's silent chasms ! The ship's company were collected and stood around , gazing upon the cold , placid countenance which they were about to consign with all its beauty to ...
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Page 299 - Temple of it ;" — that city from above, which hath " no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it ; for the glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 18 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 273 - If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Page 319 - There are- many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness ; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.
Page 406 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the first, his Cromwell — and George the third — (" Treason," cried the Speaker — " treason, treason ", echoed from every part of the House.
Page 31 - 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 ransomed nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Page 61 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee, native soil ! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Page 79 - Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ...
Page 233 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Page 249 - THERE'S beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes Can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise...