Life of James MontgomeryGould and Lincoln, 1857 - 416 pages |
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Page 20
... already loomed upon the vision of the boy : and reverberations of its far off melody break upon his lis- tening spirit . Will the old Moravian hymn - book , with its quaint lyrics , pilot him there , or , by the subtle intuitions of ...
... already loomed upon the vision of the boy : and reverberations of its far off melody break upon his lis- tening spirit . Will the old Moravian hymn - book , with its quaint lyrics , pilot him there , or , by the subtle intuitions of ...
Page 44
... already in his hand . The poems he declined to publish , but blunted the edge of his refusal with the offer of a clerkship in his establish- ment , besides words of kindly encouragement to cultivate the talents , shadowed but dimly , we ...
... already in his hand . The poems he declined to publish , but blunted the edge of his refusal with the offer of a clerkship in his establish- ment , besides words of kindly encouragement to cultivate the talents , shadowed but dimly , we ...
Page 46
... already burned ten thousand of his verses , the same number pre- served , with fifteen thousand worthless beside ; an amount of scribbling which , with his love of literature , took him from the severer tasks of school . Coleridge , an ...
... already burned ten thousand of his verses , the same number pre- served , with fifteen thousand worthless beside ; an amount of scribbling which , with his love of literature , took him from the severer tasks of school . Coleridge , an ...
Page 47
... already an old curiosity shop , where Roman coins , a Lochabar axe , and quaint - looking books , reveal the leanings of his mind ; or , perhaps , he is climbing Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags , or strolling over Flodden or Chevy ...
... already an old curiosity shop , where Roman coins , a Lochabar axe , and quaint - looking books , reveal the leanings of his mind ; or , perhaps , he is climbing Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags , or strolling over Flodden or Chevy ...
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... already possessed . - " It was at the ' height of this great argument ' that I was led into the thickest of the conflict , though , happily for myself , under no obligation to take an active share in it . With all the enthusiasm of ...
... already possessed . - " It was at the ' height of this great argument ' that I was led into the thickest of the conflict , though , happily for myself , under no obligation to take an active share in it . With all the enthusiasm of ...
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Page 212 - Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Page 374 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it : and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 377 - FOR EVER with the Lord!" Amen! so let it be! Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home.
Page 349 - And children coming home from school, Look in at the open door ; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
Page 198 - Lonely, I no longer roam, Like the cloud, the wind, the wave ; Where you dwell shall be my home, Where you die shall be my grave. Mine the God whom you adore, Your Redeemer shall be mine ; Earth can fill my soul no more, Every idol I resign. 3 Tell me not of gain or loss, Ease, enjoyment, pomp and power; Welcome poverty and cross, Shame, reproach, affliction's hour ; "Follow me...
Page 396 - The Lord bless you, and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace, both now and evermore.
Page 244 - Twas night ; the floods were out ; it blew A winter hurricane aloof; I heard his voice abroad, and flew To bid him welcome to my roof ; I warmed, I clothed, I cheered my guest, Laid him on my own couch to rest ; Then made the hearth my bed, and seemed In Eden's garden while I dreamed.
Page 245 - Then in a moment, to my view, The stranger darted from disguise ; The tokens in his hands I knew—- My Saviour stood before mine eyes. He spake ; and my poor name he named — " Of Me thou hast not been ashamed ; These deeds shall thy memorial be ; Fear not ! thou didst them unto me.
Page 89 - Beyond this vale of tears There is a life above, Unmeasured by the flight of years ; And all that life is love. 4 There is a death, whose pang Outlasts the fleeting breath : O what eternal horrors hang Around the second death...
Page 346 - ... joy and crown of rejoicing in the day of the Lord Jesus.