The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Richard Penn SmithH. W. Smith, 1856 - 326 pages |
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alembic Allah angels appeared Aspenleaf Azib Basra Bator beauty became beheld bestowed birds Biribi Black Log Mountain bliss bloom bosom breast bright bright eyes cabbage cheek cheerful child countenance daily dark dead death delight dervise dream dust dwelling Dydimus e'en EPIGRAM eternal exclaimed eyes face false friends fate father fear feast feel flowers friends gazed Gethsemane gratitude grave hand happy hard fate hath heart heaven hope houries human imagination knew labor laughed lips live looked melan merrily mind morning mortal mother earth nature ne'er never night o'er passed poor pray prayer pursuit replied repose RICHARD PENN SMITH Sailor scarcely scene seated Selim shed sigh sing sleep smile song soon soul spirit spring Stranger stream tears tempest thee thine things thought tion Toney twill uncle village voice whilst widow William Penn wing
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Page 133 - Adieu; farewell earth's bliss, This world uncertain is: Fond are life's lustful joys, Death proves them all but toys. None from his darts can fly: I am sick, I must die. Lord have mercy on us! Rich men, trust not in wealth, Gold cannot buy you health; Physic himself must fade; All things to end are made ; The plague full swift goes by; I am sick, I must die. Lord have mercy on us!
Page 290 - I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Page 189 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 287 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Page 10 - ... who had that day arrived in Philadelphia, after an absence of several years. The first salutation was scarcely over, when the curtain fell, and the author's friend innocently remarked, " Well, this is really the most insufferable trash that I have witnessed for some time.
Page 281 - Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Page 209 - Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful ; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Page 47 - LUMINE Aeon dextro, capta est Leonida sinistro, Et poterat forma vincere uterque Deos. Parve puer, lumen quod habes concede puellae; Sic tu caecus amor, sic erit ilia Venus.
Page 204 - CALL me no more, As heretofore, The music of a feast ; Since now, alas ! The mirth that was In me is dead or ceas'd. Before I went, To banishment, Into the loathed west, I could rehearse A lyric verse, And speak it with the best.
Page 241 - What is become of all those vernal fancies which had so much power to touch the heart ? What a number of sentiments have lived and revelled in. the soul that are now irrevocably gone.