The Poetical and Prose Writings of James LinenW. J. Widdleton, 1865 - 423 páginas |
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... hope that the appearance of a selection from my poetical effusions will not be deemed an imper- tinent intrusion upon public attention . The smaller poems have been so extensively copied into the newspapers throughout the United States ...
... hope that the appearance of a selection from my poetical effusions will not be deemed an imper- tinent intrusion upon public attention . The smaller poems have been so extensively copied into the newspapers throughout the United States ...
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... hopes are anchored fast in heaven . Why , O hypocrite self - righteous ! thus away from suffering start ? Is not conscience seared and torpid in the chamber of your heart ? Let the even hand of justice pluck out all that's foul within ...
... hopes are anchored fast in heaven . Why , O hypocrite self - righteous ! thus away from suffering start ? Is not conscience seared and torpid in the chamber of your heart ? Let the even hand of justice pluck out all that's foul within ...
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... hope and pride of an illustrious race ; Bending o'er her , every gentle art to comfort her he tries , While a crowd of strange emotions in his stricken heart arise . Sweetly fell his tender accents , as upon his breast she lay— " Can so ...
... hope and pride of an illustrious race ; Bending o'er her , every gentle art to comfort her he tries , While a crowd of strange emotions in his stricken heart arise . Sweetly fell his tender accents , as upon his breast she lay— " Can so ...
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... hopes were centred , And yonder was her happy home , where slaves of vice ne'er entered ; From out the depths of her blue eyes she fondly called me father , And round her brow I never saw the storms of passion gather . " Oh ! unclouded ...
... hopes were centred , And yonder was her happy home , where slaves of vice ne'er entered ; From out the depths of her blue eyes she fondly called me father , And round her brow I never saw the storms of passion gather . " Oh ! unclouded ...
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James Linen. " When I questioned her she often vowed , by all her hopes above , That she'd rather cloistered be than wed with one she could not love ; Reserved , but ever dutiful , those tender years passed by , When fiercely hopes and ...
James Linen. " When I questioned her she often vowed , by all her hopes above , That she'd rather cloistered be than wed with one she could not love ; Reserved , but ever dutiful , those tender years passed by , When fiercely hopes and ...
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Página 395 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Página 359 - It was at Rome, on the loth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to rny mind.
Página 361 - I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends; my chest was on the road to Greenock; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia — "The Gloomy Night Is Gathering Fast,
Página 379 - And what are we That hear the question of that voice sublime? Oh, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet, by thy thundering side? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life to thy unceasing roar? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to HIM Who drowned a world and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains?— a light wave That breaks and whispers of its Maker's might.
Página 416 - Th' insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field Strow'd with Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin...
Página 318 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither : so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Página 355 - Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
Página 275 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Página 377 - Age. Admirably executed was the weeping Virgin, reclining on a broken column, upon which lay the Book of Constitutions. In her left hand she held the Pot of Incense, the Masonic emblem of a pure heart, and in her uplifted right hand a sprig of acacia, the beautiful emblem of the immortality of the soul.
Página 360 - I devoted to them. I found besides a work of De Foe's, entitled ' An Essay on Projects,' from which, perhaps, I derived impressions that have since influenced some of the principal events of my life.