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Page 331 - THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS. BY ELIOT WARBURTON. " Independent of its value as an original narrative, and its useful and interesting Information, this work is remarkable for the colouring power and play of fancy with which its descriptions are enlivened. Among its greatest and most lasting charms is its reverent and serious spirit."— Quarterly Review.
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Page 331 - This is a very good and a very interesting work. It is designed to trace the career from boyhood to age of a perfect man — a Christian gentleman; and it abounds in incident both well and highly wrought Throughout it is conceived in a high spirit, and written with great ability. This cheap and handsome new edition is worthy to pass freely from hand to hand as a gift book in many households."— Examiner.
Page 77 - I' ia only for a span, a summer's day. Deep in the fitful twilight have I striven, Must now the even-feast of rest be holding: One curtain falls, — and, lo ! another play ! " His will be done whose mercy much has given ! " I '11 pray, — my grateful hands to heaven folding.
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Page 235 - Was with that ladye faire, The kinge her father walked forthe To take the evenyng aire : And into the arboure as he went To rest his wearye feet, He found his daughter and syr Cauline There sette in daliaunce sweet.
Page 235 - My very soul dotes on thee, and my spirits Do embrace thine ; my mind doth thy mind kiss ; And in this pure conjunction we enjoy A heavenlier pleasure than if bodies met : This, this is perfect love ! the other short...