Poems, Sacred and Moral

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T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, in the Strand., 1798 - 118 páginas
 

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Página 54 - Affyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the ftaff in their hand is mine -indignation, I will fend him again/} an hypocritical nation ; and again/} the people of my wrath will I give him a charge to take the fpoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the ftreets. Howbeit, he meaneth not fo ; neither doth his heart think fo : but it is in his heart to deftroy, and cut off nations not a few.
Página 56 - By the strength of my hand I have done it, And by my wisdom ; for I am prudent : And I have removed the bounds of the people, And have robbed their treasures, And I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man...
Página 56 - And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: And as one gathereth eggs that are left, Have I gathered all the earth; And there was none that moved the wing, Or opened the mouth, or peeped.
Página 55 - Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the LORD hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
Página 58 - ... 16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day...
Página 39 - ... the fon of perdition ; who oppofeth and exalteth himfelf above all that is called God, or that is worfhipped ; fo that he as God fitteth in the temple of God, fhewing himfelf that he is God.
Página 54 - Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols ? 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion...
Página 1 - And prest his heel contemptuous on the dead— '* No terrors haunt the well-concerting mind! " Vengeance my aim, thy gold I leave behind : '* Clutch'd in thy grasp be thy own knife survey'd— " Thus — so may death self-sought thy name degrade!
Página 114 - While juftice, hand in hand by mercy led, To Christian senates cried, and cried in vain ! Now their new guest the sacred hosts include, They who on earth with kindred lustre shone ; Whom love of God to love of Man...
Página 4 - Fix'd in defiance on the vault of air. Lo ! as secure he quits the' unplunder'd dead, Wide-weltering seas of fire before him spread ; With frenzied step he hurries to the shore, Shrieks, plunges headlong, and is seen no more...

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