The Gem of the SeasonJohn Holmes Agnew, Nathaniel Parker Willis Leavitt, Trow & Company, 1848 |
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Angus appearance arms Auld Robin beauty Bishop Bishop of London blessed bride Captain Whittaker Chalmers character Charles cheerful child Christian church College Conscience court Cromwell crown dark daugh death delight Duke Duke of Kent England exclaimed father fire Frank Horton friends grace hand head hear heart Holy honor hope hour Job Harding JOHN S. C. ABBOTT Kenneth king kiss Leigh Hunt life's light Linn-head living look Lord Marion Merton College mind minister morning mother never night noble numbers o'er parliament Percy prayer queen reached religion round royal Sally scene seat SIR DAVID WILKIE smile soon sorrow soul spirit Squire Farrar tears thee THEODORE VON HOLST Thevenot thing think of Time's THOMAS CHALMERS thought throne Time's far flight truth Victoria virtue betrayed voice WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR weeping Wicliffe wife wind words young youth
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Page 150 - MY HEART is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Page 34 - The voice at midnight came, He started up to hear ; A mortal arrow pierced his frame — He fell, but felt no fear.
Page 150 - And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
Page 16 - Victoria, by the grace of God Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, saving as aforesaid.
Page 58 - BLESS the LORD, O my soul : And all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, 0 my soul, And forget not all his benefits : Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction ; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies ; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things ; So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Page 115 - And however the world interprets it, I am not ashamed to solicit for such as are anywhere under pressure of this kind ; doing even as I would be done by. Sir, this is a quarrelsome age ; and the anger seems to me to be the worse, where the ground is difference of opinion ; — which to cure, to hurt men in their names, persons or estates, will not be found an apt remedy.
Page 107 - When at length Hyder Ali found, that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treaty, and no signature, could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting...
Page 120 - Thou hast made me, though very un" worthy, a mean instrument to do them some " good, and Thee service; and many of them have " set too high a value upon me, though others wish " and would be glad of my death ; Lord, however " Thou do dispose of me, continue and go on to do
Page 42 - My father urged me sair: my mother didna speak; But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break...
Page 59 - For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him ; to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all...