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... trembling and pale on my bosom . Be calm , my love ! I cry'd : compose thyself ! We will , with bended knees and contrite hearts , adore our GOD , who , in terrible majesty , comes riding on the clouds . His thunders proclaim his ...
... trembling and pale on my bosom . Be calm , my love ! I cry'd : compose thyself ! We will , with bended knees and contrite hearts , adore our GOD , who , in terrible majesty , comes riding on the clouds . His thunders proclaim his ...
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... trembling hand - It will not wake ! It will never wake more ! She then burst into tears , and speaking to the ... tremble ! An icy cold runs thro ' my veins . If the death with which we are threaten'd , is like this , how terrible ...
... trembling hand - It will not wake ! It will never wake more ! She then burst into tears , and speaking to the ... tremble ! An icy cold runs thro ' my veins . If the death with which we are threaten'd , is like this , how terrible ...
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... tremble , with horror , when my gloomy imagination represents to my view millions of creatures sunk in distress and guilt , who may execrate me as the cause of their blindness and misery . Father of men , reply'd the angel , with aspect ...
... tremble , with horror , when my gloomy imagination represents to my view millions of creatures sunk in distress and guilt , who may execrate me as the cause of their blindness and misery . Father of men , reply'd the angel , with aspect ...
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... trembling seiz'd my hand ; I was scarce able to hold the struggling vic- tim ; and never could I have brought myself to give it death , had not my resolution been animated by the express command of the AUTHOR OF LIFE . The very ...
... trembling seiz'd my hand ; I was scarce able to hold the struggling vic- tim ; and never could I have brought myself to give it death , had not my resolution been animated by the express command of the AUTHOR OF LIFE . The very ...
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... trembling hand . Yes , my father , they cry'd , we will prostrate ourselves before the LORD : we will supplicate , that sweet repose may repair thy strength , exhausted by suffering . O may our prayer be accepted ! May the LORD remove ...
... trembling hand . Yes , my father , they cry'd , we will prostrate ourselves before the LORD : we will supplicate , that sweet repose may repair thy strength , exhausted by suffering . O may our prayer be accepted ! May the LORD remove ...
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ABEL ADAM ALEXIS altar AMYNTAS ANAMELECH angels appear'd arms art thou beauty behold bless bosom bower brother CAIN charms cheeks children of heaven CHLOE clouds consolation cottage cou'd cover'd cry'd curs'd curse dæmon DAMETUS DAPHNE dear dearest death delight despair DIVINE dost thou dreadful dust dwelling earth EGLA embrace ERYTHEA eternal eyes father felicity FELIX fill'd fix'd Fleet Street flocks flowers form'd fruits gloomy gods grace grief grove hand happy hast hath heart heaven horror husband labour lips look LORD LYCIDAS MAHALA MENALCUS mercy misery morning mother nature night nosegay nymphs offer'd OLIVER pale pass'd praise rais'd rapture remain'd reply'd repose return'd RHEIMS rise SALVATOR ROSA seiz'd shade sighs silence sinner smile sorrow soul spouse stream sweet taste of joy tears tender thee thine THIRZA thou art tivate trees trembling turn'd virtue voice weep wou'd wretched
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Page 274 - Troianum orditur ab ovo: semper ad eventum festinat et in medias res non secus ac notas auditorem rapit et quae...
Page x - ENGLISH, are wrote in a kind of loose poetry, unshackled by the tagging of rhymes, or counting of syllables. This method of writing seems perfectly suited to the GERMAN language, and is of a middle species between verse and prose : it has the beauties of the first, with the ease of the last. It is not, however, peculiar to MR.
Page 230 - Thus the weary mower reposes on the sheaves himself has made. I was carefully attended, I was cured, but never could find out the man to whom I owe my life. I have...
Page 231 - They descended the hill together, and walked towards the old man's dwelling. He was rich in land and flocks, and a lovely daughter was his only heir. My child, he said to her, he that saved my life was the father of this young shepherd. If thou canst love him, I shall be happy to see you united.
Page 230 - On every side, the enemy, both horse and foot, confounded in a most dreadful tumult^ overthrew each other to escape our rage. Grown furious by the combat, we trod under foot the dead and dying, to extend vengeance and death still further.
Page 230 - ... unshaken as the rock by which we were protected. At last, reinforced by thirty Swiss warriors, we fell suddenly on the enemy, like the fall of a mountain, or as some mighty rock descends, rolls through the forest, and with a horrid crush lays waste the trees that interrupt its course. On every side the enemy, both horse and toot, confounded in a most dreadful tumult, overthrew each other to escape our rage.
Page 251 - must be the fate of those who do not join an inflexible labour to aa habitual meditation ? Let the artist who despises or neglects these important means, make no pretension to the recompense due to active and sensible minds. There is no reputation for him, to whom a taste for his art does not become his ruling passion ; to whom the hours he employs in its cultivation, are not the most delicious of his life; to whom the study of it does not constitute his real existence and his primary happiness;...
Page 230 - Take care, good father, of this warrior,' my deliverer cried ; ' he has fought like a son of liberty !' he said — and flew back to the combat. The victory was ours, my son, it was ours ! but many of us were left extended on the heaps of the enemy.
Page ix - The rapidity of the sale does honour to the taste of the swiss and the GERMANS, it having passed through three editions in one year. The subject is THE DEATH OF ABEL, which is the most remarkable event recorded in the sacred history from the FALL to the DELUGE. The poet has had the art to interest us in the distresses of our first parents, and their immediate descendants, by the lively and affecting manner in which he manages the passions, and by the graces and truth he throws into his b paintings,...
Page 228 - I come once a year to the top of this mountain ; but I perceive that I am now come for the last time. From hence I still behold the order of the battle, where liberty made us conquerors. See, it was on that side the army of the enemy advanced ; thousands of lances glittered at a distance with more than two hundred horsemen covered with sumptuous armour. The plumes that shaded their helmets nodded as they marched, and the earth resounded with their horses