Biography of Reginald Heber, Lord Bishop of Calcutta: Abridged for the Use of Young PersonsLeonard C. Bowles, 1831 - 352 pages |
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... feeling towards those who surpassed him . Generosity was indeed a very striking trait in his character , not only in boyhood , but in every period of his life . In- deed , selfdenial seemed not to cost him an ef- fort , and he never ...
... feeling towards those who surpassed him . Generosity was indeed a very striking trait in his character , not only in boyhood , but in every period of his life . In- deed , selfdenial seemed not to cost him an ef- fort , and he never ...
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... feel no anxiety with regard to their success in literary pursuits . In the spring of 1803 , Reginald Heber wrote ' Palestine , ' a prize poem , of the commence- ment of which he gives the following account in a letter to the same friend ...
... feel no anxiety with regard to their success in literary pursuits . In the spring of 1803 , Reginald Heber wrote ' Palestine , ' a prize poem , of the commence- ment of which he gives the following account in a letter to the same friend ...
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... feeling of the solemnity and even grandeur of the scene , of which he was him- self the object , than from the deeply felt sanc- tity of the subject , comprehending the most aw- ful mysteries of God's revelations to man . his voice grew ...
... feeling of the solemnity and even grandeur of the scene , of which he was him- self the object , than from the deeply felt sanc- tity of the subject , comprehending the most aw- ful mysteries of God's revelations to man . his voice grew ...
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... feel as we did then ! ' I have been two days writing this letter , for I have been often obliged to break off . There are few people to whom I would have ventured to say so much , but to a real friend , as I think you , it is pleasant ...
... feel as we did then ! ' I have been two days writing this letter , for I have been often obliged to break off . There are few people to whom I would have ventured to say so much , but to a real friend , as I think you , it is pleasant ...
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... feeling ; and that it is the desire of improvement , not the love of rambling , which has kept us so long on the continent . We got here yesterday evening , and of course are little qualified to give an account of Vienna . Our journey ...
... feeling ; and that it is the desire of improvement , not the love of rambling , which has kept us so long on the continent . We got here yesterday evening , and of course are little qualified to give an account of Vienna . Our journey ...
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Page 298 - For, oh, if there be an elysium on earth, It is this, it is this ! There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die ; One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss : And oh...
Page 85 - Thou art gone to the grave ! — we no longer behold thee, Nor tread the rough paths of the world by thy side ; But the wide arms of mercy are...
Page 275 - O'er broad Hindostan's sultry meads, O'er bleak Almorah's hill. ' That course, nor Delhi's kingly gates, Nor wild Malwah detain, For sweet the bliss us both awaits By yonder western main. ' Thy towers, Bombay, gleam bright, they say, Across the dark blue sea, But ne'er were hearts so light and gay As then shall meet in thee...
Page 274 - O'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, When, on our deck reclined, In careless ease my limbs I lay, And woo the cooler wind. I miss thee when by Gunga's stream My twilight steps I guide, But most beneath the lamp's pale beam, I miss thee from my side.
Page 340 - ... countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
Page 331 - Firm wast thou, humble and wise, Honest, pure, free from disguise ; Father of orphans, the widow's support, Comfort in sorrow of every sort, To the benighted dispenser of light, Doing and pointing to that which is right. Blessing to princes, to people, to me : May I, my father, be worthy of thee. Wishes and prayeth thy Sarabojee.
Page 85 - THOU art gone to the grave ; but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb ; The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee, And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom.