Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands

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J. Munroe and Company, 1856 - 395 עמודים
 

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עמוד 122 - He repeated this so earnestly that we could not refuse ; his daughters went into his study, opened his writing-desk, and laid paper and pens in the usual order, and I then moved him through the hall and into the spot where he had always been accustomed to work. When the chair was placed at the desk, and he found himself in the old position, he smiled and thanked us, and said — ' Now give me my pen, and leave me for a little to myself.
עמוד 99 - For the Lord will not cast off for ever: But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
עמוד 86 - I KNOW that all beneath the moon decays; And what by mortals in this world is brought, In time's great periods shall return to nought; That fairest states have fatal nights and days. I know that all the Muses...
עמוד 86 - I know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise.
עמוד 99 - How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
עמוד 387 - God of our salvation; thou who art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of those who are afar off upon the sea...
עמוד 180 - For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
עמוד 337 - To the expressive glow of woman's noon ; And now to what thou art, in comely age, Active and ardent. Let what will engage Thy present moment, whether hopeful seeds In...
עמוד 262 - Mark'd the poor conscripts' grave, And pierced by frost and famine sank The bravest of the brave. A thousand trembling lamps The gather'd darkness mock, And velvet drapes his hearse, who died On bare Helena's rock ; And from the altar near, A never-ceasing hymn Is lifted by the chanting priests Beside the taper dim. Mysterious one, and proud ! In the land where shadows reign, Hast thou met the flocking ghosts of those, Who at thy nod were slain ? Oh, when the cry of that spectral host, Like a rushing...

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