The Golden HourTicknor and Fields, 1862 - 160 pages |
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Page 110 - Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them ; 9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Page 54 - From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.
Page 67 - Ham. Do you see yonder cloud, that's almost in shape of a camel? Pol. By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Ham. Methinks, it is like a weasel. • Pol. It is backed like a weasel. Ham. Or, like a whale ? Pol. Very like a whale.
Page 88 - And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate!
Page 128 - I esteem the occasion of this jubilee to be the proud discovery that the black race can contend with the white ; that, in the great anthem which we call history, a piece of many parts and vast compass, after playing a long time a very low and subdued accompaniment, they perceive the time arrived when they can strike in with effect and take a master's part in the music.
Page 88 - Oh, that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem that is at the gate!" And the three brake through the host of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David...
Page 70 - Wendell Phillips was present, and heard the lecture, and Mr. Fitzhugh evidently took pleasure in seeing him. Fitzhugh's method of proving Free Society a failure was by theories and speculations which had got into the crevices and under the eaves of his brain, • like the bats in the rickety old mansion, situated on the fag-end of a once noble estate, in which he resided.
Page 90 - Congress, with a message purporting that, though he could not consistently treat with that assembly in the character they had assumed, yet he would gladly confer with some of their members in their private capacity, and would...
Page 91 - Great Britain and America, upon conditions equally advantageous to both ; these conditions, he added, he had not been able to obtain till after two months' delay, which had prevented him from arriving before the declaration of independence.
Page 110 - Get thee hence, Satan : for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, Angels came and ministered unto him.