Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs: A New and Rev. Ed

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M.N. Spear, 1858 - 354 עמודים
 

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עמוד 81 - Burst law's enclosure, leap the mounds of right, Pursuing, and pursued, each other's prey ; As wolves, for rapine ; as the fox, for wiles ; Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, " Here he lies :" And " Dust to dust
עמוד 110 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
עמוד 156 - Reason progressive, instinct is complete ; Swift instinct leaps ; slow reason feebly climbs. Brutes soon their zenith reach ; their little all Flows in at once ; in ages they no more Could know, or do, or covet, or enjoy, Were man to live coeval with the Sun, The patriarch-pupil would be learning still ; Yet, dying, leave his lesson half unlearnt.
עמוד 225 - However trivial, and however rude, But wins the heart, and wakes the social sigh, With every claim of close affinity! But these pure joys the world can never know; In gentler climes their silver currents flow. Oft at the silent, shadowy close of day, When the...
עמוד 266 - O'er stars and sun, triumphant, lands us there. Nor dreadful our transition ; though the mind An artist at creating self-alarms, Rich in expedients for inquietude, Is prone to paint it dreadful. Who can take Death's portrait true ? The tyrant never sat. Our sketch all random strokes, conjecture all ; Close shuts the grave, nor tells one single tale. Death, and his image rising in the brain, Bear faint resemblance ; never are alike ; Fear shakes the...
עמוד 52 - ... than run the risk of the dangers which were before me. But upon more mature reflection, I found the hard hand of necessity compelled me to stay. When I awoke the next morning, my heart beat with anxious palpitation for the issue of the day. I considered this as the most important scene of my life — that in a great measure, my future happiness or wretchedness depended on my conduct through this day. The time for assembling approached! I saw people began to come together. My feelings were all...
עמוד 227 - O ye blest scenes of permanent delight ! Full, above measure ! lasting, beyond bound! A perpetuity of bliss, is bliss. Could you, so rich in rapture, fear an end; That ghastly thought would drink up all your joy, And quite unparadise the realms of light. Safe are you lodged above these rolling spheres ; The baleful influence of whose giddy dance Sheds sad vicissitude on all beneath.
עמוד 225 - Above, below, aerial murmurs swell, From hanging wood, brown heath, and bushy dell ! A thousand nameless rills, that shun the light, Stealing soft music on the ear of night.
עמוד 52 - ... a clergyman about me. When I made my appearance, I found a stare of universal surprise at my gay dress, which suited better the character of a beau than a clergyman.
עמוד 286 - Hurlbut were in a state of great activity on this subject, and their perpetual cry was, " that 1 was endeavoring to overthrow all religion, morality and order in the place ; was introducing corrupt books into the library, and adopting the most fatal measures to overthrow all the good old establishments.

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