The Poems, Odes, Songs, and Other Metrical EffusionsAbraham Asten and Matthias Lopez, 1818 - 288 pages |
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... youth is passing- All her beauties must decay , But her mind is still amassing Charms to live an endless day . FEMALE ORNAMENTS . First published in the " Complete Coiffeur . " All hues become a pretty face , For beauty needs no foreign ...
... youth is passing- All her beauties must decay , But her mind is still amassing Charms to live an endless day . FEMALE ORNAMENTS . First published in the " Complete Coiffeur . " All hues become a pretty face , For beauty needs no foreign ...
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... the cause of truth , Arm'd by thy Saviour , still the foe engage ; Still charm from vice the steps of ardent youth , And strew with rosy hopes the path of age . To Miss H. with a volume of Montgomery's Poems . 34 Moral and WOODWORTH'S .
... the cause of truth , Arm'd by thy Saviour , still the foe engage ; Still charm from vice the steps of ardent youth , And strew with rosy hopes the path of age . To Miss H. with a volume of Montgomery's Poems . 34 Moral and WOODWORTH'S .
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... youth whose delightful employ Is to sing to his Lyre while it warbles thy praise . The Remonstrance to Winter is heard and obey'd , And Flora unfolds every beautiful hue ; But remember , tho ' nature in spring is array'd , To me all is ...
... youth whose delightful employ Is to sing to his Lyre while it warbles thy praise . The Remonstrance to Winter is heard and obey'd , And Flora unfolds every beautiful hue ; But remember , tho ' nature in spring is array'd , To me all is ...
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... youth was but blest with her favour , How might he exclaim , in the accents of wo , Take me with her to heaven , if nothing can save her , Or stay , lovely angel ! my heaven below ! The Meeting- or the Husband's Return . THE MEETING ...
... youth was but blest with her favour , How might he exclaim , in the accents of wo , Take me with her to heaven , if nothing can save her , Or stay , lovely angel ! my heaven below ! The Meeting- or the Husband's Return . THE MEETING ...
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... palace for her had no charms , Unshared by the youth she adored ; But press'd in her lov'd SELIM's arms , A cottage true bliss could afford . To Mary - The Reconciliation , a Rondeau . Then 5 * Amatory . 53 WOODWORTH'S . To Mary,
... palace for her had no charms , Unshared by the youth she adored ; But press'd in her lov'd SELIM's arms , A cottage true bliss could afford . To Mary - The Reconciliation , a Rondeau . Then 5 * Amatory . 53 WOODWORTH'S . To Mary,
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Page 279 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the high God ? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 270 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 275 - Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom be honour and power everlasting.
Page 276 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 277 - Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his. shoulders, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
Page 274 - And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 275 - If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also, and from henceforth ye know him and have seen him. . Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Page 275 - And he said, Thou canst not see my face : for there shall no man see me, and live.
Page 186 - air^drawn dagger " nigh ; And so the prince of Denmark stared, When first his father's ghost appeared. At length our hero silence broke, .And thus in wildest accents spoke : "Cut off my whiskers ! O ye gods ! I'd sooner lose my ears, by odds ; THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH.
Page 204 - He lingered ibr some time; till, at last, he called me, one day, and, gazing on me, while a faint smile played upon his lips he said, ' He believed death was more kind than his creditors.