The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts and Henry Kirke White, Volume 63Houghton, Mifflin, 1881 |
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... soon . This sickly dream " To Consumption Sonnet- " Thy judgments , Lord , are just ; " Sonnet- " When I sit musing on the chequered past " 190 190 191 192 • 192 193 193 • 194 195 Sonnet- - " Sweet to the gay of heart is CONTENTS . vii.
... soon . This sickly dream " To Consumption Sonnet- " Thy judgments , Lord , are just ; " Sonnet- " When I sit musing on the chequered past " 190 190 191 192 • 192 193 193 • 194 195 Sonnet- - " Sweet to the gay of heart is CONTENTS . vii.
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... sits upon the throne of his holiness , in the midst of light inaccessible . ' When his holiness is mentioned , ' The heavens are not clean in his sight , he charges his angels with folly . He looks to the moon , and it shineth not , and ...
... sits upon the throne of his holiness , in the midst of light inaccessible . ' When his holiness is mentioned , ' The heavens are not clean in his sight , he charges his angels with folly . He looks to the moon , and it shineth not , and ...
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... sits upon the circle of the earth , and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers . All nations before him are as the drop of a bucket , and as the small dust of the balance . He takes up the isles as a very little thing . Lebanon ...
... sits upon the circle of the earth , and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers . All nations before him are as the drop of a bucket , and as the small dust of the balance . He takes up the isles as a very little thing . Lebanon ...
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... prophets and saints , and sing to their golden harps , salvation , honour , and glory to Him that sits upon the throne , and to the Lamb , for ever . ' May 14 , 1709 . 6 HORE LYRICÆ . BOOK I. SACRED TO DEVOTION AND PIETY cviii PREFACE .
... prophets and saints , and sing to their golden harps , salvation , honour , and glory to Him that sits upon the throne , and to the Lamb , for ever . ' May 14 , 1709 . 6 HORE LYRICÆ . BOOK I. SACRED TO DEVOTION AND PIETY cviii PREFACE .
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... , and hell , and worlds unknown , Hang on his firm decree : He sits on no precarious throne , Nor borrows leave to be . The almighty voice bid ancient Night Her endless realms resign HORE LYRICE . 9 God's Dominion and Decrees.
... , and hell , and worlds unknown , Hang on his firm decree : He sits on no precarious throne , Nor borrows leave to be . The almighty voice bid ancient Night Her endless realms resign HORE LYRICE . 9 God's Dominion and Decrees.
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Page 213 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That had'st thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee, —...
Page 225 - It was my guide, my light, my all, it bade my dark forebodings cease ; and through the storm and danger's thrall it led me to the port of peace. Now safely moored — my perils o'er, I'll sing, first in night's diadem, for ever and for evermore, the Star— The Star of Bethlehem...
Page 339 - In works of labour or of skill I would be busy too; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past ; That I may give for every day Some good account at last.
Page lxxxix - Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Page 366 - Twas to save thee, child, from dying, Save my dear from burning flame, Bitter groans and endless crying, That thy blest Redeemer came.
Page 364 - How much better thou'rt attended Than the- Son of God could be, When from heaven He descended And became a child like thee...
Page 15 - Here the whole Deity is known ; Nor dares a creature guess, — Which of the glories brightest shone, The justice, or the grace.
Page 358 - I'll not be proud of my youth or my beauty, Since both of them wither and fade; But gain a good name by well doing my duty, This will scent like a rose when I'm dead.
Page lxxxix - Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Page 227 - Henry Kirke White died at Cambridge in October, 1806, in consequence of too much exertion in the pursuit of studies that would have matured a mind which disease and poverty could not impair, and which death itself destroyed rather than sub dued.