The Priest ...Baldwin, 1821 |
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... whilst the gay scene flings joy and gladness over the whole earth , and would woo it to display a thousand dimples . " Lewen smiled ; it was a smile of ef- fort - an appropriation of the Page's re- mark to himself . " They whose ...
... whilst the gay scene flings joy and gladness over the whole earth , and would woo it to display a thousand dimples . " Lewen smiled ; it was a smile of ef- fort - an appropriation of the Page's re- mark to himself . " They whose ...
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... whilst light and shade alternated so rapidly , that it was impossible to decide which predominated . The eye was radiant in tears , but the mouth was surrounded by innumerable dimples ; the cheek was flushed , but the observer traced ...
... whilst light and shade alternated so rapidly , that it was impossible to decide which predominated . The eye was radiant in tears , but the mouth was surrounded by innumerable dimples ; the cheek was flushed , but the observer traced ...
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... whilst his judgment revolted from the causes which brought that talent into play , and the purposes for which it was put in action . But now he had bestowed decided applause ; his countenance blended its accordant harmony with the ...
... whilst his judgment revolted from the causes which brought that talent into play , and the purposes for which it was put in action . But now he had bestowed decided applause ; his countenance blended its accordant harmony with the ...
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... whilst they sunk down - down -in the measureless abyss ! They be such , " he continued , again raising his voice , and speaking rapidly , " as would think no torture infinite , but that of seeing you rise upwards and upwards , whilst ...
... whilst they sunk down - down -in the measureless abyss ! They be such , " he continued , again raising his voice , and speaking rapidly , " as would think no torture infinite , but that of seeing you rise upwards and upwards , whilst ...
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... whilst she , the queen of all , and who well deserved to be so , rode sadly onwards , neither turning to the right hand nor to the left , nothing diverted by their foolish quips , not a whit tempted from her melancholy , by their broad ...
... whilst she , the queen of all , and who well deserved to be so , rode sadly onwards , neither turning to the right hand nor to the left , nothing diverted by their foolish quips , not a whit tempted from her melancholy , by their broad ...
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Act of Succession agony altar Altham amongst angelic apostacy archery beauty Ben Jonson bitter bowed breathed brightness burning canst celestial cheek church colour Confessor countenance Countess darkness daughter devoted Duke of Northumberland earth earthly eternal exquisite faith Father feelings forget gazed glance glowed Guildford Dudley hand happiness hath heart Heaven holy hopes Ignatius illegitimacy imagination immortal knowest Lady Blanche Evelyn Lady Jane Grey laugh light looked Lord Leighton Master Lewen ment midst mind mingled mortal mother ness never night Northumberland pale passions paused perchance prayer present racter religion rendered replied Lewen returned Lewen Russell sacred mysteries saints saviour of souls scene seemed sentiments sighed silence sion smile sorbed soul sounds spirit splendor spoke Steward stood tence terrible thee thine thou art thou hast thoughts throbbed thyself tion tone torture uttered Valerius voice vows whilst woman wouldst wretch young youth zeal
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Page 115 - Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled...
Page 116 - And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal...
Page 68 - Retire with me, O rash unthinking mortal, from the vain allurements of a deceitful world, and learn that pleasure was not designed the portion of human life. Man was born to mourn and to be wretched ; this is the condition of all below the stars, and whoever endeavours to oppose it, acts in contradiction to the will of Heaven.
Page 255 - ... justification by faith without works, since they were, as to every good work, reprobate. Their gross and insatiable scrambling after the goods and wealth that had been dedicated with good designs, though to superstitious uses, without applying any part of it to the promoting...
Page 254 - God upon those who pretended td love and promote a Reformation, but whose impious and flagitious lives were a reproach to it. The open lewdness in which many lived, without shame or remorse, gave great occasion to their adversaries to say, they were in the right to assert justification by faith without works, since they were, as to every good work, reprobate. Their gross and insatiable scrambling after the goods and wealth that had been dedicated with good...
Page 244 - Christ, of the church of England, and do utterly refuse the bishop of Rome's pretended authority, power, and jurisdiction, within this realm heretofore usurped, according to the laws and statutes made in that behalf, and of all the king's true subjects humbly received, admitted, obeyed, kept, and observed; and also do utterly renounce, and forsake all manner of remedy, interest, and advantage, which I may by any means claim by the bishop of Rome's laws, process, jurisdiction, or sentence, at this...
Page 68 - She was dressed in black, her skin was contracted into a thousand wrinkles, her eyes deep sunk in her head, and her complexion pale and livid as the countenance of death.
Page 255 - ... be under no restraint, but indulge themselves in a licentious and dissolute course of life. By these things, that were but too visible in some of the more eminent among them, the people were much alienated from them ; and as much as they were formerly...
Page 197 - Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee up again! What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Page 256 - ... in a licentious and dissolute course of life. By these things, that were but too visible in some of the more eminent among them, the people were much alienated from them : and as much as they were formerly prejudiced against Popery, they grew to have kinder thoughts of it, and to look on all the changes that had been made as designs to enrich some vicious courtiers, and to let in an inundation of vice and wickedness upon the nation.