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accordingly Æneid ancient Anglo-Saxon animals applied beautiful beautifully breath called character charm Cicero circumstances cognate colloquial compound constructing language correspondence correspondential darkness denote derived described designate digamma Divine earth elegant emblem emotions Eneid English essence etymology Eumolpida Euripides evil existence expressions external nature figurative flow flowers forms French French language furnished Georgic Greek Greek language harmony heart heaven Hebrew Hebrew language Hence Homer human idea Iliad illustrated innumerable instance intellectual Isaiah language Latin Latin language latter light likewise literally Lord material meaning metaphor mind numbers objects onomatopoetic original outbirth Ovid passage physical Pindar poetry poets possession preposition primæval principle Psalm qualities reason reference relation root Sanscrit says Scriptures sense Septuagint Shakspere shew shewn signifies Sisera Sophocles soul sounds speak spring standing sublime sweet symbolic synonymous taste thence Theocritus things tongues trees true truth verb verse Virgil virtue whence words καὶ
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Page 156 - For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
Page 160 - Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
Page 64 - THE wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; And the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice Even with joy and singing: The glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, The excellency of Carmel and Sharon, They shall see the glory of the Lord, And the excellency of our God.
Page 119 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! Make thick my blood ; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it!
Page 57 - But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his Ways, and we will walk in his paths:" for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 106 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Page 38 - Pure as the expanse of Heaven: I thither went, With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seem'd another sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appear'd, Bending to look on me; I started back: It started back: but pleased I soon return'd; Pleas'd it return'd as soon, with answering looks Of sympathy and love...
Page 172 - I remember Two miles on this side of the fort, the road Crosses a deep ravine ; 'tis rough and narrow, And winds with short turns down the precipice; And in its depth there is a mighty rock, Which has, from unimaginable years, Sustained itself with terror and with toil Over a gulf, and with the agony With which it clings seems slowly coming down...
Page 172 - Over a gulf, and with the agony With which it clings seems slowly coming down; Even as a wretched soul hour after hour, Clings to the mass of life; yet clinging, leans; And leaning, makes more dark the dread abyss In which it fears to fall : beneath this crag Huge as despair, as if in weariness, The melancholy mountain yawns . . , below...
Page 74 - be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer, and supplication, with thanksgiving, let our requests be made known unto God ; and the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.