Hiero-salem: the Vision of Peace: A Fiction Founded on Ideals ...J. G. Cupples Company, 1889 - 508 pages |
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Page 8 - God ; he riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments, and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
Page 197 - ... on the root, And Desire shudders into ashes, and the tree of Passion bears no fruit Ah ! what else had I to do but love you, God's own mother was less dear to me, And less dear the Cytheraean rising like an argent lily from the sea.
Page 196 - Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust, She that was young and fair Fallen to dust. Lily-like, white as snow, She hardly knew She was a woman, so Sweetly she grew. Coffin-board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, I vex my heart alone, She is at rest. Peace, Peace, she cannot hear Lyre or sonnet, All my life's buried here, Heap earth upon it.
Page 146 - That tossed the dog, that worried the cat, That caught the rat that ate the corn, That lay in the House that Jack Built.
Page 379 - And if you do not thus far serve the publick, you need not complain of great sufferings and unrighteous discouragements, if people do not applaud your conduct, as you might otherways have expected. But if you altogether hold your peace at such a time as this is, your silence, at least seemingly, will speak this language ; that you are not concerned, though men ascribe the power and providence of the Almighty to the worst of his creatures — that if other ages or countries improve the doctrines and...
Page 484 - WHENCE? WHAT? WHERE? A VIEW OF THE ORIGIN, NATURE, AND DESTINY OF MAN.
Page 406 - This is the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt, That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 131 - Commissioners declare that the competition for land, if unchecked bylaw or custom, will reduce ' the whole agricultural population to a condition of misery and degradation ; ' and they have resolved, so far as in them lies, to arrest this slow ruin of Bengal. They enunciate the principle that 'the land of a country belongs to the people of a country ; and while vested rights should be treated with all possible tenderness, no mode of appropriation and cultivation should be permanently allowed by the...
Page 261 - The champions, armed in martial sort, Have thronged into the list, And but three knights of Arthur's court Are from the tourney missed. And still these lovers' fame survives For faith so constant shown, — There were two who loved their neighbors' wives, And one who loved his own. The first was Lancelot de Lac, The second Tristrem bold, The third was valiant Carodac, Who won the cup of gold What time, of all King Arthur's crew — Thereof came jeer and laugh — He, as the mate of lady true, Alone...