Demetria. Hadad. Percy's masque

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C. Little and J. Brown, 1839
 

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Page 215 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou ? Then Satan answered the Lord and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Page 127 - after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, — I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
Page 108 - Tam. But how delicious are the pensive dreams That steal upon the fancy at their call! Had. Delicious to behold the world at rest. Meek labor wipes his brow, and intermits The curse, to clasp the younglings of his cot; Herdsmen and shepherds fold their flocks, — and hark ! What merry strains they send from Olivet!
Page 107 - Tam. Surely, thou know'st; and now I almost think Some spiritual creature waits on thee. Had. I heard no sounds, but such as evening sends Up from the city to these quiet shades; A blended murmur sweetly harmonizing With flowing fountains, feathered minstrelsy, And voices from the hills.
Page 137 - O! where, In the illimitable space, in what Profound of untried misery, when all His worlds, his rolling orbs of light, that fill With life and beauty yonder infinite, Their radiant journey run, for ever set, Where, where, in what abyss shall I be groaning
Page 135 - Tam. Wondrous!—What intercourse have they with men? Had. Sometimes they deign to intermix with man, But oft with woman. Tam. Ha! with woman ? Had. She Attracts them with her gentler virtues, soft, And beautiful, and heavenly, like themselves. They have been known to love her with a passion Stronger than human. Tam. That surpasses all You yet have told me.
Page 132 - was from him I learned their fate, their fall, Who, erewhile, wore resplendent crowns in Heaven; Now, scattered through the earth, the air, the sea. Them he compels to answer, and from them Has drawn what Moses, nor no mortal ear, Has ever heard. Tam. But did he tell it thee ? Had. He told me
Page 111 - But thou believ'st not this. Had. I almost wish Thou didst; for I have feared, my gentle Tamar, Thy spirit is too tender for a Law Announced in terrors, coupled with the threats Of an inflexible and dreadful Being, Whose word annihilates,
Page 111 - his purpose faltered not! — His anger never dies, never remits, But unextinguished burns to deepest hell. Jealous, implacable Tarn. Peace ! impious ! peace ! Had. Ha! says not Moses so ? The Lord is jealous. Tam. Jealous of our faith, Our love, our true obedience, justly his ; And a poor recompense for all his
Page 132 - ve heard a tale Like this, but ne'er believed it. Had. I have proved it. — Through perils dire, dangers most imminent, Seven days and nights 'midst rocks and wildernesses, And boreal snows, and never-thawing ice, Where not a bird, a beast, a living thing, Save the far-soaring vulture comes, I dared My desperate way, resolved to know, or perish.

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