The Messiah:, Volume 1For J. Walker; J. Johnson and Company; J. Richardson; ... [and 18 others], 1811 - Christian poetry, German |
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Abbadona Abdiel abyss Adramelech Almighty angel of death anguish answer'd appear'd art thou awful Barabbas behold bless'd blessed blood Caiaphas call'd celestial clouds countenance cover'd cry'd darkness dead descended didst disciples divine dost thou dreadful dust earth Eloa encompass'd enraptur'd enter'd eternal exalted eyes face Father fill'd fix'd form'd Gabriel gloom glory Golgotha grace gracious grief hear heard heart Heaven heavenly Hell High holy human immortal Ithuriel Jehovah Jerusalem Jesus Judas Judas Iscariot Judea Judge judgment lofty look look'd Lord mercy Messiah mind mortal mother mother of Jesus mount of Olives mountains night pass'd Philo Pilate Portia priests prophets rais'd rapture Redeemer resounded return'd rising sacred Satan Saviour sepulchres seraph silent sinners smile soul spake spirits stood sublime suffer tears tender terror thee thine thon thou art thou hast thoughts throne thunder thyself trembling turn'd virtue voice weep wilt Zemia
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Page 109 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Page 159 - Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed ? And Jesus said, I am ; and ye shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power, and eoming in the elouds of heaven. Then the high priest rent his elothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses? ye have heard the hlasphemy : what think ye ? And they all eondemned him to he guilty of death.
Page 124 - Speak, ye cedars, rustling speak - speak, for under your branches I saw him walk! Stay, thou rapid stream - stay, for there I saw him pass thy waves ! Whisper, ye gentle gales, as when with smiling grace he descended from those towering hills ! Stand still before him, O earth, and suspend thy course, as once thou stoodst still, when he passed over thee; when round his face sublime the moving heavens flowed ! when his right hand poised the glowing...
Page 35 - Dread not, ye eelestial spirits, to enter the ahodes of terror and dismay ; for out of these, new worlds shall arise, more glorious than thuse ye have left.
Page 3 - May the muse presume, with awful distanee, to penetrate the saered veil that snrrounds thce. :md fcehle man attempt thy praise! Can a weak mortal explain thy heights, thy depths? Assist me, Othou divine Spirit!
Page 69 - Cast yoor eyea ou him, and you will no louger think of Judas. Devout as a seraph, he lives with the Messiah as oue of the immortals.
Page 215 - The terrors of God sat on their expanded wings. The terrors of God rnsh'd down.
Page 35 - Hell rises a luminous mass, in the midst of the flaming sea, whieh nms into the lake of death.
Page 69 - Creator never form'd oue more pore and heavenly than that of John. I was present when the immortal...
Page 19 - When the soul of the just departed Christian, hovering over its 'late...