The Outcast: a Poem. In Six Cantos

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J. Hatchard and son, 1837 - 232 страници

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Страница 227 - I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. 20 And the Lord said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. 21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. 22 And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he...
Страница 227 - And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith ? And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt entice him, and shalt prevail also: go forth, and do so.
Страница 229 - Savage. I killed none but my enemies. I never killed my own countrymen. I never killed my friend. Here, take my blanket, and let it come over in the boat, but see that the murderer does not sit upon it or touch it. If he does, I will burn it instantly in the fire I see yonder.
Страница 230 - COLLECT. Concede. — Grant, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that thy faithful, who rejoice under the name and protection of the most blessed Virgin Mary, may, by her pious intercession, be delivered from all evils here on earth, and be brought to the eternal joys of heaven. Thro'.
Страница 222 - When or by whom they were made is uncertain ; however, we read of cannon being used as early as the thirteenth century, in a sea engagement between the King of Tunis and the Moorish King of Seville. The Venetians...
Страница v - Raffaello. His figures are passions personified ; and love, fear, hope, and desire, anger, placability, humility, or pride, assume their places by turns, as the subject changes ; and while the spectator regards the countenances, the air, and the gestures of his figures, he forgets that they are the work of art, and is surprised to find his own feelings excited, and himself an actor in the scene before him.
Страница 222 - They were mounted on swift horses, with drawn swords in their hands ; and in the throng of battle selected such as were destined io slaughter, and conducted them to Valhalla, the hall of Odin, or paradise of the Brave ; where they attended the banquet, and served the departed Heroes with horns of mead and ale.
Страница 231 - God, who to recommend to us innocence of life, wast pleased to let the soul of thy blessed Virgin Scholastica ascend to heaven in the shape of a dove : grant by her merits and prayers, that we may lead innocent lives here, and ascend to eternal joys hereafter. Thro'.
Страница 232 - God, (he declares,) at the first putting to of the fire, there fell a little dew, or a few pleasant drops upon us that stood by, a pleasing noise from heaven, God knows whether I may truly term it a thunder crack, as the people did in the gospel, John xii. 29. or an angel, or rather God's own voice.
Страница 229 - I won't go in a boat with that fellow. I will swim over the River. I can swim like a duck. Mercury. Swim over the Styx! It must not be done; it is against the laws of Pluto's Empire.

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