Lectures on the Life, Genius and Insanity of Cowper R. Carter & brothers, 1856 - Всего страниц: 415 |
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... guide , who could lead the way through hell and purgatory , but was not sufficient for the mysteries of heaven , a mind ever so cultivated and poetical , may be vi INTRODUCTION . unable to behold the things of the ОНАРТЕВ PAGE INTRODUCTION.
... guide , who could lead the way through hell and purgatory , but was not sufficient for the mysteries of heaven , a mind ever so cultivated and poetical , may be vi INTRODUCTION . unable to behold the things of the ОНАРТЕВ PAGE INTRODUCTION.
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... heavens , and the type of his derangement had been the despair of ever again beholding his Saviour's face in glory , and the obstinate belief of being excluded by Divine de- cree from heaven , though his affections were all the while in ...
... heavens , and the type of his derangement had been the despair of ever again beholding his Saviour's face in glory , and the obstinate belief of being excluded by Divine de- cree from heaven , though his affections were all the while in ...
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... heaven . " How sweet a picture of maternal tenderness and care ! Sometimes , in the midst of darkness and despondency , in after years , Randolph would write , " I am a fatalist ! I am all but friendless . Only one human being ever knew ...
... heaven . " How sweet a picture of maternal tenderness and care ! Sometimes , in the midst of darkness and despondency , in after years , Randolph would write , " I am a fatalist ! I am all but friendless . Only one human being ever knew ...
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... heaven , though little noticed here . " The morning brightness of such a mother's love , the child , passed into a man , could not forget , though all things were forgotten . He remem- bered the sound of the tolling bells on the day of ...
... heaven , though little noticed here . " The morning brightness of such a mother's love , the child , passed into a man , could not forget , though all things were forgotten . He remem- bered the sound of the tolling bells on the day of ...
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... heaven . It was so far from deplorable for himself , that he was always in the enjoyment of the sweet- est social and Christian communion , and in the almost uninterrupted exercise of prayer and praise . And so far from melancholy to ...
... heaven . It was so far from deplorable for himself , that he was always in the enjoyment of the sweet- est social and Christian communion , and in the almost uninterrupted exercise of prayer and praise . And so far from melancholy to ...
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Стр. 66 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry , but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.
Стр. 362 - It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
Стр. 11 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou might'st know me safe and warmly laid ; Thy morning bounties ere I left my home, The biscuit, or confectionary plum ; The fragrant waters on my cheeks bestowed By thy own hand, till fresh they shone and glowed...
Стр. 294 - The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made, For those who follow thee. 3 There if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh ! with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God. 4 There, like the nightingale, she pours Her solitary lays, Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts for human praise.
Стр. 123 - My panting side was charged, when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by th
Стр. 397 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of discovery, and begets In those that suffer it a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.
Стр. 255 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy, and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright ; The screws reversed (a task which if He please God in a moment executes with ease) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till He tune them, all their power and use.
Стр. 376 - And still to love, though prest with ill, In wintry age to feel no chill, With me is to be lovely still, My Mary! But ah! by constant heed I know How oft the sadness that I show Transforms thy smiles to looks of woe, My Mary! And should my future lot be cast With much resemblance of the past, Thy...
Стр. 205 - That, reaching home, the night, they said, is near, We must not now be parted, sojourn here — The new acquaintance soon became a guest, And, made so welcome at their simple feast, He...
Стр. 361 - I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.