Howitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress, Volume 3

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William Howitt
W. Lovett, 1848
 

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Page 365 - called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake ; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you ; and shall say all manner of . evil against you for my sake." " Observe the room and its furniture. An humble but
Page 41 - light," emblems of her decay, " She floated down to Camelot, And as the boathead wound along, The billowy hills and fields among, They heard her singing her last song," the last truly inspired song, of "The Lady of Shalott." " Heard a carol, mournful, holy, Chaunted loudly, chaunted lowly."— loudly to those who understand the mournful
Page 237 - and your asses, and put them to his work. And he will take the tenth of your sheep, and ye shall be his servants. And ye shall cry out at that day because of the king whom ye have chosen, and the Lord will 'not hear you at that day."—Samuel
Page 316 - suppressed—again That short deep gasp, and then The parting groan. Oh, change ! oh wondrous change— Burst are the prison bars— This moment, there, so low, So agonized, and now Beyond the stars ! Oh, change !—stupendous change ! There lies the soulless clod : The sun eternal breaks— The new immortal wakes—
Page 41 - Then down the river's dim expanse Like some bold seer in a trance," so that he has no power to help himself,—so intoxicating is the thirst for fame :—and withal, not without misgiving, and a consciousness of his sin,—
Page 41 - glorious does he seem in his adornments ! " The gemmy bridle glittered free Like to some branch of stars we see Hung in the golden galaxy. The bridle-bells rang merrily As he rode down to Camelot : And, from his blazon'd baldrick
Page 41 - On burnished hooves his war-horse trode; From underneath his helmet flowed His coal-black curls as on he rode, As he rode down to Camelot. From the bank and from the river He flashed into the crystal mirror,
Page 306 - This, the servants said, was owing to their having lifted the body from the floor to the bed. The inquest returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown," and agreed so far in the force of circumstantial evidence with the police and
Page 40 - of market-girls Pass onward from Shalott. " And not every-day life only; but she is at home in all times and conditions, and sympathises with all. So that she can at any time recaí any vision of the past at will : as for instance, " Sometimes a troop of damsels glad ; An abbot on an ambling pad, Sometimes a curly shepherd lad ;
Page 42 - dead one they will notice,—the dead to the true purpose and vocation :— " Out upon the wharves they came, Knight and burgher, lord and dame, And round the prow they read her name. The Lady of

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