The Parent's PresentSamuel Griswold Goodrich Light & Horton, 1835 - 232 pages |
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... Holy Sepulchre .. Magnanimous Legatee The Song of the Stromkerl .. Christ's Entry into Jerusalem .. The Domestic Cat ...... .JAMES HOGG 38 .R . MONTGOMERY 42 ... JAMES 43 .................................... ... CHAMBERS 56 ..HEMANS 61 ...
... Holy Sepulchre .. Magnanimous Legatee The Song of the Stromkerl .. Christ's Entry into Jerusalem .. The Domestic Cat ...... .JAMES HOGG 38 .R . MONTGOMERY 42 ... JAMES 43 .................................... ... CHAMBERS 56 ..HEMANS 61 ...
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... holy look his ev'ning prayer , Or gazing , mutely pensive , sits to hear The mournful ballad warbled in his ear ; How fondly looks admiring Hope the while , At every artless tear , and every smile ! How glows the joyous parent to descry ...
... holy look his ev'ning prayer , Or gazing , mutely pensive , sits to hear The mournful ballad warbled in his ear ; How fondly looks admiring Hope the while , At every artless tear , and every smile ! How glows the joyous parent to descry ...
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... holy mountain . wwwwwwwnnas YOUTH AND AGE . VERSE , a breeze ' mid blossoms straying , Where HOPE clung feeding like a bee , Both were mine ! LIFE went a Maying With NATURE , HOPE , and POESY , When I was young ! When I was young ...
... holy mountain . wwwwwwwnnas YOUTH AND AGE . VERSE , a breeze ' mid blossoms straying , Where HOPE clung feeding like a bee , Both were mine ! LIFE went a Maying With NATURE , HOPE , and POESY , When I was young ! When I was young ...
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... with all suffering done , Encircled the throne of the Holy One ! · Though ours be a pillared and lofty home , Where Want with his pale train never may come , Oh ! scorn not the poor with the scorner's jest 24 INFANTINE INQUIRIES .
... with all suffering done , Encircled the throne of the Holy One ! · Though ours be a pillared and lofty home , Where Want with his pale train never may come , Oh ! scorn not the poor with the scorner's jest 24 INFANTINE INQUIRIES .
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... the path of the weeping choristers . To us , to whom that dirge - like strain was new , all seemed like a pensive , and mournful , and holy dream . ' The clergyman met the bier at the gate , THE ENGLISH TWINS . ર 35.
... the path of the weeping choristers . To us , to whom that dirge - like strain was new , all seemed like a pensive , and mournful , and holy dream . ' The clergyman met the bier at the gate , THE ENGLISH TWINS . ર 35.
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Page 81 - BREATHES there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 223 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Page 176 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —
Page 123 - TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. THOU blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end.
Page 220 - Well done, good and faithful servants, enter ye into the joy of your Lord.
Page 175 - And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain; But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every -seed his own body.
Page 21 - twixt Now and Then ! This breathing House not built with hands, This body that does me grievous wrong, O'er aery Cliffs and glittering Sands, How lightly then it flashed along...
Page 224 - I will mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Page 219 - Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
Page 55 - ... him by his master, though of considerable length, fully and faithfully. He runs over the quiverings of the canary, and the clear whistlings of the Virginia nightingale or red-bird, with such superior execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat, by redoubling his exertions.