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... Wise- hearted , too , was Southey's young Arabian , in watching silently the frantic grief of the newly childless old diviner in pitying silence Thalaba stood by , and gazed , and listened : " not with the officious hand of consolation ...
... Wise- hearted , too , was Southey's young Arabian , in watching silently the frantic grief of the newly childless old diviner in pitying silence Thalaba stood by , and gazed , and listened : " not with the officious hand of consolation ...
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... wise to utter soothing words at present , as he watches in Adam that look of sudden age which sometimes comes over a young face in moments of terrible emotion . As Bartle Massey elsewhere describes this silent sympathizer , " Ay , he's ...
... wise to utter soothing words at present , as he watches in Adam that look of sudden age which sometimes comes over a young face in moments of terrible emotion . As Bartle Massey elsewhere describes this silent sympathizer , " Ay , he's ...
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... wise as serpents ( there was a serpent in Eden ) who are not also harmless as doves , have now and then essayed to round a sophistic period , or clench an immoral argument , with an It is written . Among the crowd of pilgrims who throng ...
... wise as serpents ( there was a serpent in Eden ) who are not also harmless as doves , have now and then essayed to round a sophistic period , or clench an immoral argument , with an It is written . Among the crowd of pilgrims who throng ...
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... wise of the maxims to be culled from the pages of Terence is that in which satius esse credit Pudore et liberalitate liberos retinere , quam metu . Southey insists that no man was ever more thoroughly ignorant of the nature of children ...
... wise of the maxims to be culled from the pages of Terence is that in which satius esse credit Pudore et liberalitate liberos retinere , quam metu . Southey insists that no man was ever more thoroughly ignorant of the nature of children ...
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... wise , if not with all the wisdom of those Christian morals , of which we have so impressive an expositor in Sir Thomas Browne . " Leave future occurrences to their uncer- tainties , " writes the fine old physician , Religiosus Medicus ...
... wise , if not with all the wisdom of those Christian morals , of which we have so impressive an expositor in Sir Thomas Browne . " Leave future occurrences to their uncer- tainties , " writes the fine old physician , Religiosus Medicus ...
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Page 189 - By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Page 9 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Page 11 - Grey. But then I sigh, and with a piece of Scripture, Tell them — that God bids us do good for evil ; And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stolen forth of holy writ ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Page 255 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Page 348 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give...
Page 330 - Nebuchadnezzar : and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds
Page 379 - What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded ; 8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
Page 157 - Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. " Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
Page 379 - I was all ear, !(« And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death.
Page 224 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?