The Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-bags, and Other LecturesDerby & Jackson, 1857 - 285 էջ William Henry Milburn was a blind Methodist clergyman. A friend of notables including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, he was Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives in 1845 and Chaplain of the Senate fifty years later (1893 until his death in 1903). He preached and lectured throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Ireland. |
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... mother and sisters and took her and her brother prisoners . Now in the west rose dark clouds which soon over- spread the whole heavens , and the hoarse muttering of distant thunder foretold a coming storm . Thick darkness shrouded the ...
... mother and sisters and took her and her brother prisoners . Now in the west rose dark clouds which soon over- spread the whole heavens , and the hoarse muttering of distant thunder foretold a coming storm . Thick darkness shrouded the ...
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William Henry Milburn. THE WEDDING DINNER . 49 their fingers for forks . Every mother's skirt is clutched by her brood of little ones , begging for dodger and gravy , while around every hunter , fawn and leap his hounds , begging for ...
William Henry Milburn. THE WEDDING DINNER . 49 their fingers for forks . Every mother's skirt is clutched by her brood of little ones , begging for dodger and gravy , while around every hunter , fawn and leap his hounds , begging for ...
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... mother , made the tour of Europe , giving public concerts here and there . At these she often melted the audience to sympathetic tears by her feeling ut- terance of a sad song upon her blindness , composed for her by a brother in ...
... mother , made the tour of Europe , giving public concerts here and there . At these she often melted the audience to sympathetic tears by her feeling ut- terance of a sad song upon her blindness , composed for her by a brother in ...
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... mother , and the worm his sister . The grandest exploits of the intellect more display its weakness than its strength . Its richest stores of know- ledge only prove to it its poverty . The saddening consciousness of ignorance has ever ...
... mother , and the worm his sister . The grandest exploits of the intellect more display its weakness than its strength . Its richest stores of know- ledge only prove to it its poverty . The saddening consciousness of ignorance has ever ...
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... mothers , to the beautiful and beloved relation of our wives . can do , and what her heart In the early centuries of our era our Teuton an- ANCIENT AND MODERN WOMEN . 157 cestors purchased their wives 156 AN HOUR'S TALK ABOUT WOMAN .
... mothers , to the beautiful and beloved relation of our wives . can do , and what her heart In the early centuries of our era our Teuton an- ANCIENT AND MODERN WOMEN . 157 cestors purchased their wives 156 AN HOUR'S TALK ABOUT WOMAN .
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Էջ 88 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
Էջ 115 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Էջ 121 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Էջ 144 - Where the lamps quiver So far in the river, With many a light From window and casement. From garret to basement, She stood with amazement, Houseless by night. The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river; Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled — Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran.
Էջ 111 - Thus, from the laureat fraternity of poets, riper years and the ceaseless round of study and reading led me to the shady spaces of philosophy ; but chiefly to the divine volumes of Plato, and his equal Xenophon : where, if I should tell ye what I learnt of chastity and love, I mean that which is truly so...
Էջ 111 - Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,* which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Էջ 116 - We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books...
Էջ 145 - Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, kindly, Smooth and compose them; And her eyes, close them, Staring so blindly. Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity, As when with the daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity.
Էջ xix - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Էջ 71 - God will be a husband to the widow, and a father to the fatherless.