Alroy: A Romance

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B. Tauchnitz, 1846 - 286 pages
 

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Page 124 - Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not ; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Page 114 - Sing, O heavens ; and be joyful, O earth ; and break forth into singing, O mountains : for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
Page 113 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 113 - HEAR ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
Page 120 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD...
Page 162 - And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Page 113 - In God is my salvation and my glory : the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. 8 Trust in him at all times ; ye people, pour out your heart before him : God i* a refuge for us.
Page 157 - IT is the tender twilight hour, when maidens in their lonely bower, sigh softer than the eve ! The languid rose her head upraises, and listens to the nightingale, while his wild and thrilling praises, from his trembling bosom gush : the languid rose her head upraises, and listens with a blush. In the clear and rosy air, sparkling with a single star, the sharp and spiry cypress-tree rises like a gloomy thought, amid the flow of revelry. A singing bird, a single star, a solemn...
Page 9 - I know not what I feel, yet what I feel is madness. Thus to be is not to live, if life be what I sometimes dream, and dare to think it might be. To breathe, to feed, to sleep, to wake and breathe again, again to feel existence without hope; if this be life, why then these brooding thoughts that whisper (loath were better ?
Page 19 - All this is come upon us ; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.