Helen of the Glen: A Tale of the Scotch Covenanters |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Bible blessing blood bosom brother carabine Christian comfort companions countenance COVENANTERS cruelty darkness daughter dear death districts of Scotland dwelling eternal everlasting everlasting love faithful Father in heaven fear forget friends Glasgow glen God's mercy hand happy hath hear heard heart heath Helen and William hell holy hope Jehovah Jesus Christ kind king of terrors lamb look Lord minister minister of religion moorland morning mother mountain ness never forsake night old farmer orphans peace persecution piety pious pleasure pray preaching Redeemer religion remember righteousness Sabbath salvation Scotland sinner sins sister soldier soul stood streams surgeon sweet sword tear tempest tender thee thing Thomson thou thought threw tion tremble trust unto utter voice weeping wept wicked widow of Cleugh-head wild wild thyme William crossed words wrath Wrathburn YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY young reader
Popular passages
Page 27 - For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Page 66 - The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered : he openeth his eyes, and he is not. 20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night. 21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
Page 3 - ONE there is, above all others, Well deserves the name of Friend ; His is love beyond a brother's, Costly, free, and knows no end.
Page 3 - And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
Page 75 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness : and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness ; and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn : they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 54 - He brings, and round about him ; nor from Hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place : now Conscience wakes Despair That slumbered ; wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue.
Page 24 - Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so is the Son of man lifted up; that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but have everlasting life.
Page 17 - In gentle stream; then rose the song, the loud Acclaim of praise. The wheeling plover ceased Her plaint; The solitary place was glad, And on the distant cairns the watcher's ear Caught doubtfully at times the breeze-borne note.
Page 21 - If thee, Jerusalem, I forget, Skill part from my right hand. My tongue to my mouth's roof let cleave, If I do thee forget, Jerusalem, and thee above My chief joy do not set.
Page 81 - What hero, like the man who stands himself; Who dares to meet his naked heart alone ; Who hears, intrepid, the full charge it brings, Resolv'd to silence future murmurs there ? The coward flies- and, flying, is undone.