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- books.google.com1820
... Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishing^; Blank misgivings of
a Creature Moving about in worlds not realiz'd. High instincts, before which our
mortal Nuturc Did tremble like a guilty Thing surpriz'd: But for those first affections.
Those shadowy recoil eetions, "Which, be they what they may, Are yet the
fountain light of all our day, Are yet a m aster light ... He delights to trace out those
ties of sympathy by which the meanest of beings are cdnnectcd with the general
heart. - books.google.coma. carrington - 1876
The message was delivered, and the following returned : " Tell him that I am
engaged with his Master. ... Where worlds and systems roll, Is there one solitary
traces Of blemish in the whole : Nay ; even on this mortal sphere. Where man is
struggling now, A creature tilled with want and fear, And death writ on his brow,
Shall harmony at last evolve By rich experience won, And each obedient soul's
resolve ... - books.google.comJohn Milton - 1758
- books.google.comCassandra Clare - 2011 - 1952 pages
... were the order of the day. ... Her instinct was right; without a trace of hesitation
the woman gave her a hurried series of directions. ... And yet you have a word
for it. Convenient. It's a Downworlder word, not a Clave one. They have legends
about creatures like you. I'm ... I am Nephilim. Years ago I was in the Circle, with
Valentine. I slaughtered Downworlders at the Uprising. I am not one of them. - books.google.com1764
.8 1 O man ! may you be one day sen- ble of seeing and admiring. ... certain age,
while it i^ break, when I am obliged to quit this yet free, arduous, restless, and
anxious mortal scene. after happiness, ... adore its all- wise creator, whose fea-
been no better than the angels, and, tures I trace in his workmanship, without
doubt, ... - books.google.com1741
If I am ever dealt with unjust- the mastery over themselves and their pasty, I say to
myself, that just Being who sions, even during life, if, ... the less to break, when I of
those which are unknown ; the heart, am obliged to quit this mortal scene. at a
certain age, while it is yet free, ... a the order of the universe, and adore its
virtuous man will be one day much su- all-wise creator, whose features I trace in
perior. - books.google.comCharles John Ellicott - 1865 - 186 pages
I feel, indeed, and deeply do I feel it, that I am now presuming to enter upon thrice
holy ground, ground whereon it is difficult for mortal speculation to enter
without casting ... Much do I fear that, day by day, opinions more or less allied to
that seductive form of belief called Univer- salism, or, in plain ... It takes but
little ingenuity to trace it in many of the most popular literary productions of our
own times. - books.google.com
I feel, indeed, and deeply do I feel it, that I am now presuming to enter upon thrice
holy ground, ground whereon it is difficult for mortal speculation to enter
without ... Much do I fear that, day by day, opinions more or less allied to that
seductive form of belief called Universalism, or, in plain English, ... It takes but
little ingenuity to trace it in many of the most popular literary productions of our
own times. - books.google.com
Shall we rob ourselves of content, because our bodies are mortal ? ... of hie
reason ; and, although we, at the present day, might feel inclined, from motives
purely philosophical, to reply to it with a negative, yet, if we follow up the feelings
excited by the question, into the general detail of human action if we trace the
secret windings ... we shall be inclined to admit that the love of life is the strongest
, the most invincible principle by which not only man but every living creature is
actuated. - books.google.com1821
With what an august scene am I presented; orb placed beyond orb in the ethereal
expanse, at distances too remote for human calculation ! ... reach of mortal sight
or conception, how small, how comparatively insignificant a creature am I! Like a
drop taken from the vast ... Yet, while I stand beholding with admiration yonder
luminaries, I feel myself supported in life and in the exercise of my ... Methinks I
see its sprightly beams gilding the horizon, and leading on the bright triumphant
day!