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Alhama appear avoit BEAUMONT and FLETCHER beautiful BEN JONSON bien birds body called church colour cujus dæmon dance death devil Dieu doth DU CANGE earth enim evil eyes faire fait father fire French give Gondibert grave hath head heard heart heaven hills hommes honour HORACE WALPOLE horse Ibid John JONSON Keswick killed King Koreish l'on lady Letters light live London Lord Madoc marriage ment Mexitli miles mind Monthly Review mother nature never night person play poem poet poor Prince qu'il quæ quam quod religion river says soul spirit stone story Tezozomoc Thalaba thee thing thou thought tion Tlaloc told tree unto verse virtue Welsh wife wind woman word young
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Page 518 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Page 219 - For behold, I have made thee this day, a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land. And they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.
Page 665 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Page 669 - And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
Page 659 - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history; And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
Page 219 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
Page 723 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Page 683 - Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
Page 219 - The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way ; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate ; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
Page 683 - Thus saith the LORD ; If ye can break my covenant of the day, And my covenant of the night, And that there should not be day and night in their season. Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, That he should not have a son to reign upon his throne ; And with the Levites the priests, my ministers.