Miscellanies, Volumen1Hilliard, Gray, 1836 - 402 páginas |
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Página 214 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.
Página 51 - But a glance on the great picture of life will show, that the duties of self-denial, and the sacrifice of passion to principle, are seldom thus remunerated ; and that the internal consciousness of their high-minded discharge of duty produces on their own reflections a more adequate recompense, in the form of that peace which the world cannot give Or take away.
Página 342 - But all things hold their march, As if by one great will : Moves one, move all : Hark to the footfall ! On, on, for ever ! Yon sheaves were once but seed : Will ripens into deed.
Página 263 - We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is either to sink under the trial or to be made callous by it. The best is to be as wise as possible under a great disability, and as happy as possible under a great privation.
Página 337 - LORD Jesus, come ; for here Our path through wilds is laid ; We watch as for the dayspring near, Amid the breaking shade. 2 Lord Jesus, come ; for hosts Meet on the battle plain ; The patriot mourns, the tyrant boasts, And tears are shed like rain.
Página 338 - The patriot mourns, the tyrant boasts, And tears are shed like rain. 3 Lord Jesus, come ; for still Vice shouts her maniac mirth ; The famished crave in vain their fill, While teems the fruitful earth.
Página 170 - ... affections till they are shed abroad in all their plenitude, the purposes of their creation become fulfilled. They were to life like a sleeping ocean to a bright but barren and silent shore. When the breeze from afar awakened it, new lights began to gleam, and echoes to be heard; rich and unthought-of treasures were cast up from the depths; the barriers of individuality were broken down; and from henceforth, they who choose may "hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Página 342 - Day thoughts feed nightly dreams ; And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song. On, on, for ever. " By night, like stars on high, The hours reveal their train ; They whisper and go by ; I never watch in vain. Moves one, move all; Hark to the foot-fall ! On, on, for ever.
Página 51 - ... a character of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp, is degraded rather than exalted by an attempt to reward virtue with temporal prosperity. Such is not the recompense which Providence has deemed worthy of suffering merit...
Página 209 - On the first motion of a holy thought ; Vigils of contemplation ; praise ; and prayer — A stream, which, from the fountain of the heart Issuing, however feebly, nowhere flows Without access of unexpected strength.