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... Erection of the Obelisk , Fontana . Wet the ropes ! The Grand Penitentiary . ... 48 RETURN OF THE PROCESSION . History of the Passion . Music . Stabat Mater . Cheering hopes SPY WEDNESDAY . Serene evening . The refulgent sun an emblem ...
... Erection of the Obelisk , Fontana . Wet the ropes ! The Grand Penitentiary . ... 48 RETURN OF THE PROCESSION . History of the Passion . Music . Stabat Mater . Cheering hopes SPY WEDNESDAY . Serene evening . The refulgent sun an emblem ...
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... erected social order , the loyalty of subjects , and the stability of empires . Under the head of Education , the former penalties on Catholic education in Ireland , the past wrongs , hopes , and disappointments , and the present claims ...
... erected social order , the loyalty of subjects , and the stability of empires . Under the head of Education , the former penalties on Catholic education in Ireland , the past wrongs , hopes , and disappointments , and the present claims ...
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... erected in his honour after his victory over the Persians , so far back in the annals of time as the year 205 before the coming of Christ ! Between the two , in the Via Sacra , stands the deeply in- teresting and exquisitely ...
... erected in his honour after his victory over the Persians , so far back in the annals of time as the year 205 before the coming of Christ ! Between the two , in the Via Sacra , stands the deeply in- teresting and exquisitely ...
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... erected as the mau- soleum of Cecilia Metella , where , near two thousand years ago , her remains were " Tombed in a palace ! " The mighty mole teaches us the same salutary lesson ! TOMB OF METELLA . 13 -who was she ? —where.
... erected as the mau- soleum of Cecilia Metella , where , near two thousand years ago , her remains were " Tombed in a palace ! " The mighty mole teaches us the same salutary lesson ! TOMB OF METELLA . 13 -who was she ? —where.
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... erected— where four hundred other churches , are dedicated to the worship of the Most Holy - where numerous sacred ... erect moles , columns , and monuments as bribes to fame to perpetuate their memories ! -the very object of their ...
... erected— where four hundred other churches , are dedicated to the worship of the Most Holy - where numerous sacred ... erect moles , columns , and monuments as bribes to fame to perpetuate their memories ! -the very object of their ...
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Page 272 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome ; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watchdog bay'd beyond the Tiber ; and More near from out the Caesars...
Page 62 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook his former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in his honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undeflled.
Page 19 - Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay.
Page 362 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 224 - But high she shoots through air and light, Above all low delay, Where nothing earthly bounds her flight, Nor shadow dims her way. So grant me, GOD, from every care And stain of passion free, Aloft, through Virtue's purer air, To hold my course to Thee ! No sin to cloud, no lure to stay My Soul, as home she springs ; — Thy Sunshine on her joyful way, Thy Freedom in her wings ! FALLEN IS THY THRONE.
Page 362 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 361 - But yet all is not done; man disobeying, Disloyal, breaks his fealty, and sins Against the high supremacy of Heaven, Affecting godhead, and, so losing all To expiate his treason hath nought left, But to destruction sacred and devote, He, with his whole posterity, must die. Die, he or justice must; unless for him Some other, able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction ; death for death.
Page 158 - And even the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped, what waits him there ? To see profusion that he must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combined To pamper luxury and thin mankind...
Page 273 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion...
Page 330 - Jehovah has triumph' d — his people are free! Sing — for the pride of the tyrant is broken, His chariots, his horsemen; all splendid and brave, How vain was their boasting ! the Lord hath but spoken, And chariots and horsemen are sunk in the wave. Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah has triumph'd — his people are free!