 | 1832 - 852 pages
...penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, culm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the...prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers... | |
 | 1825 - 570 pages
...penitence, gratitude, passion; the other, proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the...prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers... | |
 | 1825 - 582 pages
...prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker: but he set bis foot on the neck of his king. In bis devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers... | |
 | 1826 - 596 pages
...penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : But he set his foot on the...prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers... | |
 | Ant The - 1827 - 366 pages
...penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but he set his foot on the...prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1830 - 592 pages
...frenzies, is not denied. The more exalted Puritan of the two which formed the one, is described. " He heard the lyres of angels or the tempting whispers...or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire !" The fairy tales of the Countess D'Anois, that charming writer of innocent inventions, do not equal... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 pages
...sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set GO his foot on the neck of the king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...gratitude, passion — the other, proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but he set his foot on the...tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of beatific vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself entrusted... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the...prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 420 pages
...his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres...whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the beatific (55 vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted... | |
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Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men —the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the neck of his... 
