Lives of Sacred Poets, Volume 2J.W. Parker, 1838 - 363 pages |
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... cheerful and confident thoughts , to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes , put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies . " But with this sublime declaration of ...
... cheerful and confident thoughts , to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes , put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies . " But with this sublime declaration of ...
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... cheerful , and his conversation eloquent and instruc- tive . His daughter said " her father was delightful com- pany , the life of the conversation , and that on account of a flow of subject , and an unaffected cheerfulness of civility ...
... cheerful , and his conversation eloquent and instruc- tive . His daughter said " her father was delightful com- pany , the life of the conversation , and that on account of a flow of subject , and an unaffected cheerfulness of civility ...
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... cheerful was his temper , that he would be very facetious and entertaining to his friends in the evening , even when ... cheerfulness to sing his Morning Hymn , as he then used to do , to his lute , before he put on his clothes . " In ...
... cheerful was his temper , that he would be very facetious and entertaining to his friends in the evening , even when ... cheerfulness to sing his Morning Hymn , as he then used to do , to his lute , before he put on his clothes . " In ...
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... cheerful . " Ken , it has been supposed , regarded the Revolution , at first , with favourable sentiments , and he has been blamed for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to William ; but whatever opinion may be entertained of the ...
... cheerful . " Ken , it has been supposed , regarded the Revolution , at first , with favourable sentiments , and he has been blamed for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to William ; but whatever opinion may be entertained of the ...
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... cheerful resignation with which he distributed among his poorer brethren , money appropriated to his own necessities , are traits that honourably distinguished the friend of Morley and Isaac Walton . True priests he said , and preachers ...
... cheerful resignation with which he distributed among his poorer brethren , money appropriated to his own necessities , are traits that honourably distinguished the friend of Morley and Isaac Walton . True priests he said , and preachers ...
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Page 234 - The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee.
Page 133 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Page 132 - GIVE me the wings of faith, to rise Within the vail, and see The saints above — how great their joys, How bright their glories be ! 2 Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears ; They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears.
Page 108 - Direct, control, suggest this day All I design, or do, or say, That all my powers, with all their might, In Thy sole glory may unite ! Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!
Page 22 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Page 20 - I was confirmed in this opinion that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Page 240 - E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die.
Page 234 - There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God...
Page 250 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropped upon his Bible was sincere : Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Page 310 - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half...