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... beautiful form . All is changing ; but the laws fixed by the wisdom of God , though they permit the rocking to and fro of the system , never introduce disorder , or lead to destruction . All is perfect and harmonious , and the music of ...
... beautiful form . All is changing ; but the laws fixed by the wisdom of God , though they permit the rocking to and fro of the system , never introduce disorder , or lead to destruction . All is perfect and harmonious , and the music of ...
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... beautiful purposes which this moisture erves . When the summer sun has sunk beneath the horizon , and 300lness revisits the scorched plant and soil , the grateful dew descends along with it , and moistens alike the green leaf and the ...
... beautiful purposes which this moisture erves . When the summer sun has sunk beneath the horizon , and 300lness revisits the scorched plant and soil , the grateful dew descends along with it , and moistens alike the green leaf and the ...
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... beautiful afternoon , and the usual mirth of the evening watch was proceeding , when the captain's order came to prepare with all haste for a storm . The barometer had begun to fall with appalling rapidity . As yet , the oldest sailors ...
... beautiful afternoon , and the usual mirth of the evening watch was proceeding , when the captain's order came to prepare with all haste for a storm . The barometer had begun to fall with appalling rapidity . As yet , the oldest sailors ...
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... beautiful play of colours on its surface ; and so is it with that most beautiful of all the phenomena of the atmosphere , the rain- bow . The drops of rain act as a prism , and separate the white light of the solar rays into the seven ...
... beautiful play of colours on its surface ; and so is it with that most beautiful of all the phenomena of the atmosphere , the rain- bow . The drops of rain act as a prism , and separate the white light of the solar rays into the seven ...
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... beautiful women , mothers with their children beside them and maidens in the young dawn of womanhood , merchants from their stalls and courtiers from the palace , beggary and disease crawling from the fetid alleys , stood still to hear ...
... beautiful women , mothers with their children beside them and maidens in the young dawn of womanhood , merchants from their stalls and courtiers from the palace , beggary and disease crawling from the fetid alleys , stood still to hear ...
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Popular passages
Page 108 - The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school; The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
Page 330 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
Page 111 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies!
Page 113 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 310 - The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Page 114 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind...
Page 111 - Tis now become a history little known, That once we called the pastoral house our own. Short-lived possession ! But the record fair, That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm, that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced.
Page 29 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.
Page 109 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place : Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remained to pray.
Page 102 - O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds the day, Over the cloudlet dim, Over the rainbow's rim, Musical cherub, soar, singing, away ! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be ! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place — Oh, to abide in the desert with thee ! JAMES HOGG.