Experiences of a Gaol Chaplain: Comprising Recollections of Ministerial Intercourse with Criminals of Various Classes, with Their Confessions, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1847 - 299 pages |
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Page 227 - FAR from my thoughts, vain world ! be gone, Let my religious hours alone : Fain would mine eyes my Saviour see ; — I wait a visit, Lord ! from thee. 2 My heart grows warm with holy fire, And kindles with a pure desire ; Come, my dear Jesus ! from above, And feed my soul with heavenly love. 3...
Page 44 - The fault was mine ; nor do I seek to screen My errors with defensive paradox ; I have been cunning in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward, My whole life was a contest, since the day That gave me being, gave me that which marr'd The gift, — a fate, or will, that walk'd astray...
Page 156 - TREAD softly — bow the head — In reverent silence bow — No passing bell doth toll, Yet an immortal soul Is passing now. Stranger ! however great, With lowly reverence bow ; There's one in that poor shed — One by that paltry bed, Greater than thou.
Page 79 - Oh, Sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket.
Page 66 - Memory doth unrol her page, Which in the garish, noisy day, was sealed. Then comes Reflection, with her whispers sage, And precepts of mild wisdom are reveal'd. Sweet voices, silent now on earth, once more Bless my charmed ear. Sweet smiles around me play. Tho...
Page 284 - But the untutored, yet faithful worshipper is gone. The grass of the prairie, long and coarse, waves over the graves of the curate and his flock. And where once ascended the notes of praise and thanksgiving, the thistle rears its tall head in triumph ; the nettle, and the fox-glove, and the deadly nightshade thrive undisturbed ; or perhaps the sturdy settler, as " he drives his team a-field...
Page 118 - On the jury returning, after having retired to consider their verdict, the clerk of the court says, gentlemen are you agreed upon your verdict ? How say you, is the prisoner guilty or not guilty ? The jury find the prisoner guilty.
Page 52 - Highness received Lady Charlotte Campbell (who came in soon after me) with open arms, and evident pleasure, and without any flurry. She had no rouge on, wore tidy shoes, was grown rather thinner, and looked altogether uncommonly well. The first person who opened the door to me was the one whom it was impossible to mistake, hearing what is reported ; six feet high, a magnificent head of black hair, pale complexion, mustachios which reach from here to London. Such is the stork.
Page 267 - Exeter and study his profession,' and vowed he ' would never trouble him for an opinion again.' Another practitioner was sent for, and he, after exhausting the invalid with a succession of questions, declared the ' symptoms distressing,' and the ' case attended with difficulty,' but ' by no means with DANGER !' Nobody told him to ' return and study his profession; ' but there was one who was very sure such a recommendation was necessary.
Page 91 - Shafto designed and effected, during his nine years' absence from England, was the erection of a dozen alms-houses. It was a benevolent project, and could have been entertained only by a benevolent mind.