A shilling's worth of reading for the rail, the road, and the fireside; a collection of papers1857 |
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Сторінка 47 - Sundays the pillars are, On which heaven's palace arched lies : The other days fill up the spare And hollow room with vanities. They are the fruitful beds and borders In God's rich garden : that is bare Which parts their ranks and orders.
Сторінка 47 - The Sundays of man's life, Threaded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope ; Blessings are plentiful and rife, More plentiful than hope.
Сторінка 63 - Heaven seem'd to frame And measure out this only dame. Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care ! Over whose heads those arrows fly Of sad distrust and jealousy ; Secured in as high extreme, As if the world held none but them. To...
Сторінка 47 - The indorsement of supreme delight, Writ by a friend, and with his blood; The couch of time ; care's balm and bay ; The week were dark, but for thy light: Thy torch doth show the way.
Сторінка 47 - That was required to make us gay, And fit for Paradise. Thou art a day of mirth : And, where the week-days trail on ground, Thy flight is higher, as thy birth. O let me take thee at the bound, Leaping with thee from seven to seven, Till that we both, being toss'd from earth, Fly hand in hand to heaven!
Сторінка 55 - What ! so young, and yet so wicked ? " at the same time accused him of an attempt to pick his pocket. The frightened boy sobbed out his denial of the intention, and explained to him how he thought himself Leander swimming across the Hellespont. The gentleman was so struck and delighted with the novelly of the thing, and with the simplicity and intelligence of the boy, that he subscribed, as before stated, to the library ; in consequence of which Coleridge was further enabled to indulge his love of...
Сторінка 72 - ... snowing heavily : Johnson and Bygrave got some xummuls (coarse blankets) thrown over us. Dr. Bryce, HA, came and examined Sturt's wound: he dressed it; but I saw by the expression of his countenance that there was no hope. He afterwards kindly cut the ball out of my wrist, and dressed both my wounds. Half of a Sipahee's pall had been pitched, in which the ladies and their husbands took refuge. We had no one to scrape the snow off the ground in it. Capt. Johnson and Mr. Mein first assisted poor...
Сторінка 57 - He who is awake may be at work or at play ; he who is asleep is receiving the refreshment necessary to fit him for action ; but the hours spent in dozing and slumbering are wasted, without either pleasure, or profit.
Сторінка 43 - ... misconduct of their young soldiers during night affairs in the trenches. The old soldiers behaved admirably, and stood by their officers to the last ; nor was there any lack of courage among the young lads just joined, but they were wanting in discipline and in confidence in their officers.