The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home ReadingW. Stevens, printer, 1874 |
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Page 65 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Page 84 - And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
Page 116 - So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning, till the day Appear of respiration to the just...
Page 140 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Page 214 - Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.
Page 260 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come : but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Page 84 - And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable: 5 A sower went out to sow his seed...
Page 244 - Well,' replied the President, without lifting his head or changing his attitude, ' I am on a great broad rolling river — and I am in a boat — and I drift— and I drift ! — but this is not business ' — suddenly raising his face and looking round the table as Mr. Stanton entered, ' let us proceed to business, gentlemen.
Page 64 - Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
Page 272 - Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away : for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.