The Silent HouseCongregational Pub. Soc., 1876 - 156 страници |
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... heavens terrified as the earth by the woe which followed sin . Other poets have pictured to us young Cain , watching for the appearing of Death , in the gloomy shadows at nightfall by Eden . For God had said to the father of man- kind ...
... heavens terrified as the earth by the woe which followed sin . Other poets have pictured to us young Cain , watching for the appearing of Death , in the gloomy shadows at nightfall by Eden . For God had said to the father of man- kind ...
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... heaven Shines not the less for that one vanished star . " Amid all the throngs of the dying , we are to fall unnoticed ; but " the day we die , though of no importance to the world , is to ourselves of more importance than is all the ...
... heaven Shines not the less for that one vanished star . " Amid all the throngs of the dying , we are to fall unnoticed ; but " the day we die , though of no importance to the world , is to ourselves of more importance than is all the ...
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... Heaven's sake , let us sit upon the ground , And tell sad stories of the death of kings ; For within the hollow crown LIBRA That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps death his court ; and there the antic sits , Scoffing his state ...
... Heaven's sake , let us sit upon the ground , And tell sad stories of the death of kings ; For within the hollow crown LIBRA That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps death his court ; and there the antic sits , Scoffing his state ...
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... heaven so soon , " said the pious Muslims , when they ran away from a plague - smitten city . In some of the savage tribes of Borneo , a cus- tom prevails of changing the name of any per- son who rises from a severe sickness ; as if ...
... heaven so soon , " said the pious Muslims , when they ran away from a plague - smitten city . In some of the savage tribes of Borneo , a cus- tom prevails of changing the name of any per- son who rises from a severe sickness ; as if ...
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... heaven . Men are so engrossed in their com- mon affairs , that they need the very touch of the dead to arouse them . It is said that the ancient Thebans used to carry coffins into their banquet - rooms , that they might never forget the ...
... heaven . Men are so engrossed in their com- mon affairs , that they need the very touch of the dead to arouse them . It is said that the ancient Thebans used to carry coffins into their banquet - rooms , that they might never forget the ...
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Страница 65 - For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men ; neither are they plagued like other men.
Страница 104 - I, to comfort him, bid him a' should not think of God, I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.
Страница 132 - By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed ; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. 9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country...
Страница 21 - For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Страница 23 - Our lives are rivers, gliding free To that unfathomed, boundless sea, The silent grave ! Thither all earthly pomp and boast Roll, to be swallowed up and lost In one dark wave. Thither the mighty torrents stray, Thither the brook pursues its way, And tinkling rill. There all are equal. Side by side The poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still.
Страница 66 - When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me, Until I went into the sanctuary of God ; then understood I their end.
Страница 47 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, And all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field : The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: . Because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: Surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: But the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Страница 24 - There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Страница 48 - I am : how little more I know ! Whence came I ? Whither do I go ? A centred self, which feels and is ; A cry between the silences ; A shadow-birth of clouds at strife With sunshine on the hills of life; A shaft from Nature's quiver cast Into the Future from the Past ; Between the cradle and the shroud, A meteor's flight from cloud to cloud.
Страница 21 - Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king...