A Volume of VarietiesCharles Knight, 1844 - 240 էջ |
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Արդյունքներ 34–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... - SONG OF THE FISHER'S WIFE . Rest , rest , thou gentle Sea , Like a giant laid to sleep , - Rest , rest , when day shall flee , And the stars their bright watch keep ; For his boat is on thy wave , And he 28 A VOLUME OF VARIETIES .
... - SONG OF THE FISHER'S WIFE . Rest , rest , thou gentle Sea , Like a giant laid to sleep , - Rest , rest , when day shall flee , And the stars their bright watch keep ; For his boat is on thy wave , And he 28 A VOLUME OF VARIETIES .
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... wife , the father of the cradled child , was , we found , absent at his nightly toil . The old man seldom now partook of this labour . His Mary's husband , he said , was an honest and generous fellow . An old fisherman , who had , for ...
... wife , the father of the cradled child , was , we found , absent at his nightly toil . The old man seldom now partook of this labour . His Mary's husband , he said , was an honest and generous fellow . An old fisherman , who had , for ...
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... wife's whole being ap- peared wrapped up in his happiness . She loved him with a deep and confiding love ; and if her hours of anxiety were not unfrequent , there were moments of ecstasy in their blameless existence which made all peril ...
... wife's whole being ap- peared wrapped up in his happiness . She loved him with a deep and confiding love ; and if her hours of anxiety were not unfrequent , there were moments of ecstasy in their blameless existence which made all peril ...
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... wife . It was not long before I introduced myself to the " ancient " fisherman . He remembered me with some difficulty ; but when I brought to his mind the simple incidents of our first meeting , and more especially his daughter's song ...
... wife . It was not long before I introduced myself to the " ancient " fisherman . He remembered me with some difficulty ; but when I brought to his mind the simple incidents of our first meeting , and more especially his daughter's song ...
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... wife , five tranquil years , Five years of wedded peace , have knit our lives In that most holy union , which survives Of youthful love the passionate hopes and fears ; And we are parents ; that sole thought endears Each to the other ...
... wife , five tranquil years , Five years of wedded peace , have knit our lives In that most holy union , which survives Of youthful love the passionate hopes and fears ; And we are parents ; that sole thought endears Each to the other ...
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Էջ 212 - Look at the generations of old, and see; did ever any trust in the Lord, and was confounded? or did any abide in his fear, and was forsaken? or whom did he ever despise, that called upon him?
Էջ 124 - ... that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom ; that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy Name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Էջ 171 - Secure, whate'er he gives, he gives the best. Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions and a will resigned; For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat...
Էջ 124 - ALMIGHTY GOD, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the LORD, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity...
Էջ 124 - We give thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world...
Էջ 94 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.
Էջ 178 - Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
Էջ 40 - CHERRY-RIPE, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones; come and buy. If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer : There, Where my Julia's lips do smile ; There's the land, or cherry-isle, Whose plantations fully show All the year where cherries grow.
Էջ 108 - ... their dogs ; but if men be kind unto them, and be in their habit, then are they conquered with kindness, and the sport will be plentiful.
Էջ 139 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tures in a milc-a.