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Page 3 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 3 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 23 - Conventicles," provided that any person who should be present at any meeting, under colour or pretence of any exercise of religion, in other manner than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England...
Page 2 - O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver...
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Page 79 - ... and catching the drops as they fell, like heavy rain from my head and face ; you can hardly imagine how unhappy I was if any of them escaped my mouth.
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Page 342 - I, AB, do declare, That I do believe that there is not any transubstantiation in the sacrament of the Lord's supper, or in the elements of bread and wine, at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever.
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| Title | The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure ..., Volume 22 |
| Contributors | Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) |
| Publisher | Published ... according to Act of Parliament, for John Hinton, 1758 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Nov 28, 2007 |
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