The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Selections and Masterpieces from Their Writings ...Fifth avenue library society, 1899 |
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... thou canst call it back or stay it there , That way it went ; but thou shalt find No track is left behind . Fool ! ' tis thy life , and the fond archer thou . Of all the time thou'st shot away , I'll bid thee fetch but Yesterday , And ...
... thou canst call it back or stay it there , That way it went ; but thou shalt find No track is left behind . Fool ! ' tis thy life , and the fond archer thou . Of all the time thou'st shot away , I'll bid thee fetch but Yesterday , And ...
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... thou sleep'st thyself , thy God's awake . Above the subtle foldings of the sky , Above the well - set orbs ' soft ... thou dost tread , Nature's self's thy Ganymede . Thou dost drink , and dance , and sing , Happier than the happiest ...
... thou sleep'st thyself , thy God's awake . Above the subtle foldings of the sky , Above the well - set orbs ' soft ... thou dost tread , Nature's self's thy Ganymede . Thou dost drink , and dance , and sing , Happier than the happiest ...
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... thou dost see , All the plants belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce , Fertile made with early juice . Man for thee does sow and plough ; Farmer he , and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently enjoy ; Nor does thy luxury destroy ...
... thou dost see , All the plants belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce , Fertile made with early juice . Man for thee does sow and plough ; Farmer he , and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently enjoy ; Nor does thy luxury destroy ...
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... Thou polished and high - finished foe to truth , Graybeard corruptor of our listening youth , To purge and skim away the filth of vice , That , so refined , it might the more entice , Then pour it on the morals of thy son , To taint his ...
... Thou polished and high - finished foe to truth , Graybeard corruptor of our listening youth , To purge and skim away the filth of vice , That , so refined , it might the more entice , Then pour it on the morals of thy son , To taint his ...
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... Thou art the nurse of Virtue , in thine arms She smiles , appearing , as in truth she is , Heaven - born , and destined to the skies again . Thou art not known where Pleasure is adored , That reeling goddess with the zoneless waist And ...
... Thou art the nurse of Virtue , in thine arms She smiles , appearing , as in truth she is , Heaven - born , and destined to the skies again . Thou art not known where Pleasure is adored , That reeling goddess with the zoneless waist And ...
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Page 31 - Shortening his journey between morn and noon, And hurrying him, impatient of his stay, Down to the rosy west ; but kindly still Compensating his loss with added hours Of social converse and instructive ease, And...
Page 225 - And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee...
Page 20 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head...
Page 24 - Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store: Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...
Page 226 - Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you ; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment.
Page 26 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropp'd upon his Bible was sincere ; Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Page 29 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 40 - Where spices breathe, and brighter seasons smile, There sits quiescent on the floods that show Her beauteous form reflected clear below, While airs impregnated with incense play Around her, fanning light her streamers gay ; So thou, with sails how swift ! hast reached the shore, " Where tempests never beat nor billows roar,"* And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since has anchored by thy side.
Page 49 - We are living, we are dwelling, In a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling, To be living is sublime.
Page 34 - BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, The spectacles set them unhappily wrong ; The point in dispute was, as all the world knows, To which the said spectacles ought to belong.