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... MOUNTAINS . Being the Correspondence with her Friends , between the years 1773 and 1803. By Mrs. Grant , of Laggan . 6th Edition . Edited , with Notes and Additions , by her Son , J. P. Grant , Esq . 2 vols . post 8vo . 21s . XI . A ...
... MOUNTAINS . Being the Correspondence with her Friends , between the years 1773 and 1803. By Mrs. Grant , of Laggan . 6th Edition . Edited , with Notes and Additions , by her Son , J. P. Grant , Esq . 2 vols . post 8vo . 21s . XI . A ...
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... mountains catch the gale , O'er lawns the lily sheds perfume , The violet in the vale . But this bold floweret climbs the hill , Hides in the forest , haunts the glen , Plays on the margin of the rill , Peeps round the fox's den ...
... mountains catch the gale , O'er lawns the lily sheds perfume , The violet in the vale . But this bold floweret climbs the hill , Hides in the forest , haunts the glen , Plays on the margin of the rill , Peeps round the fox's den ...
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... , The ocean round the land . Lift to the firmament your eye , Thither his path pursue ; His glory , boundless as the sky , O'erwhelms the wondering view . He bows the heavens the mountains stand - A highway 12 THE MODERN SPEAKER .
... , The ocean round the land . Lift to the firmament your eye , Thither his path pursue ; His glory , boundless as the sky , O'erwhelms the wondering view . He bows the heavens the mountains stand - A highway 12 THE MODERN SPEAKER .
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Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER. He bows the heavens the mountains stand - A highway for their God ; He walks amidst the desert land , ' Tis Eden where He trod . The forests in his strength rejoice ; Hark ! on the evening ...
Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER. He bows the heavens the mountains stand - A highway for their God ; He walks amidst the desert land , ' Tis Eden where He trod . The forests in his strength rejoice ; Hark ! on the evening ...
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... mountain and pearls of the ocean , Myrrh from the forest or gold from the mine ? Vainly we offer each ample oblation ; Vainly with gifts would His favour secure : Richer by far is the heart's adoration ; Dearer to God are the prayers of ...
... mountain and pearls of the ocean , Myrrh from the forest or gold from the mine ? Vainly we offer each ample oblation ; Vainly with gifts would His favour secure : Richer by far is the heart's adoration ; Dearer to God are the prayers of ...
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Página 306 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head; And we far away on the billow!
Página 383 - Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Página 14 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Página 136 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 70 - This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept,...
Página 61 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Página 198 - And to the ragged infant threaten war ; There poppies nodding, mock the hope of toil; There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil; Hardy and high, above the slender sheaf, The slimy mallow waves her silky leaf...
Página 225 - 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.
Página 398 - GREEN little vaulter in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole voice that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When even the bees lag at the summoning brass, And you, warm little housekeeper, who class With those who think the candles come too soon, Loving the fire, and with your tricksome tune Nick the glad silent moments as they pass : Oh sweet and tiny cousins that belong One to the fields, the other to the hearth...