The castle builders; or, The deferred confirmation. By the author of 'Heartsease'.

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J. and C. Mozley, 1854 - 351 стор.

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Сторінка 141 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Сторінка 348 - Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler ; the snare is broken, and we are delivered. 7 Our help standeth in the name of the LORD, who hath made heaven and earth.
Сторінка 329 - O Lord, with the Holy Ghost, the Comforter; and daily increase in them thy manifold gifts of grace; the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and ghostly strength, the spirit of knowledge and true godliness; and fill them, O Lord, with the spirit of thy holy fear, now and for ever. Amen.
Сторінка 212 - I mean an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us, ordained by Christ himself, as a means whereby we receive the same, and a pledge to assure us thereof.
Сторінка 52 - And the steed shall be red-roan, And the lover shall be noble, With an eye that takes the breath : And the lute he plays upon shall strike ladies into trouble As his sword strikes men to death.
Сторінка 218 - PRUNE thou thy words, the thoughts control That o:er thee swell and throng ; They will condense within thy soul, And change to purpose strong. But he who lets his feelings run In soft luxurious flow, Shrinks when hard service must be done, And faints at every woe. Faith's meanest deed more favor bears, Where hearts and wills are weighed, Than brightest transports, choicest prayers, Which bloom their hour and fade.
Сторінка 88 - Which neither groves nor happy valleys boast; Where other cares than those the Muse relates, And other shepherds dwell with other mates; By such examples taught, I paint the Cot, As Truth will paint it, and as Bards will not...
Сторінка 246 - O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd ! How low, how little, are the proud ! How indigent the great...
Сторінка 222 - Don't talk of her coming home,' cried Emmeline; ' it will be only to see her droop and fade. I know what it will be like : — " Despair it was come, and she thought it was content, She thought it was content, and yet her cheek grew pale, And she drooped like a lily broke down by the hail.
Сторінка 99 - Yes, and just this very time — 'tis eight, is not it ? — he will be ringing the curfew ; and nobody stops a bit in the field after that, but in they come — almost all of them, at least — to church ; and you can't think how pretty it is coming out, to see the porch and the church-yard all heaped up with their sheaves of gleaning. My uncle always likes to look at them so much, and it is a famous time to hear what they think of the weather, and how the crops are.

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