The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volumen12

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Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith
E. Littell, 1828
 

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Página 314 - And surely, never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in— glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy."—
Página 4 - the grave ! but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb: Thy Saviour has pass'd through its portal before thee, And the lamp of His love is thy guide through the gloom ! But the wide arms of Mercy are spread to enfold thee, And sinners may
Página 12 - Of Sharon's dewy rose ! Lo, such the child whose early feet, The paths of peace have trod ; Whose secret heart, with influence sweet, Is upward drawn to God ! The lily must decay ; The rose that blooms beneath the hill By cool Siloam's shady rill Must shortly fade
Página 668 - doth haste The nightingale, when May is past; For in your sweet dividing throat She winters, and keeps warm her note. Ask me no more,—where those stars light That downwards fall in dead of night; For in your eyes they sit, and there Fixed become, as in their sphere. \ Ask
Página 668 - For in your beauty's orient deep, These flowers as in their causes sleep. Ask me no more,—whither do stray The golden atoms of the day ; For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair. Ask me no more,—whither doth haste The nightingale, when May is past; For in your
Página 4 - But the wide arms of Mercy are spread to enfold thee, And sinners may die, for the SINLESS has died! Thou art gone to the grave ! we no longer behold thcc, Nor tread the rough paths of the world by thy side
Página 90 - The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants; it is always unknown; it is different in different men; it is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper, and passion. In the best, it is oftentimes caprice— in the worst, it is every vice, folly, and passion to which human nature is liable.
Página 403 - of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise." Of the truth of this we have a happy
Página 118 - has been before commented upon as characteristic of all Henry's proceedings. The allusion in the text appears to be the 10th verse of the xxth chap, of Deuteronomy: 'When thou comest nigh to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.'
Página 589 - of the sense of the House that slavery ought to be abolished gradually throughout the British colonies with as much expedition as might be found consistent with a due regard to the well-being of the parties concerned, Mr. Canning, while he agreed with Mr. Buxton in his general principle, declared his anxiety to avoid any pledge

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