The Lily and the Bee: An Apologue of the Crystal PalaceBlackwood, 1851 - 224 pages |
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Adam ÆSCHYLUS ages amazed Anaxagoras ancient Anon Aristotle art thou astronomers awful awhile beautiful Behold blood bright brother brow Carthage Charlemagne Christian crown Crystal Palace David Brewster dazzling dear Didst thou distant dread earth Egypt Eternity fear flowers gazing gentle glittering glorious glory hast thou hath hear heart Heaven Herschel hive Holy humble illustrious immortal infinitely Japheth John Herschel King Koh-i-Noor light look Lord lovely magnificent Majesty mankind melting mighty millions Mizraim mortal musing myriad mysterious mystic Napoleon Newton noble o'er ocean peace perchance Pharaoh Philosopher Planet PLATO Prince profound Queen quoth radiant Red Sea Rome round royal Saracen says scanning scene sceptre sceptred isle Shinar sigh solemn sons soul spirit Stagyrite standing stars Stone sublime suddenly telling terraced heights thee thine thinking thought thousand throne toils trembling Truth Tunis unseen unto vast wilt wonder
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Page 156 - The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 147 - And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer...
Page 157 - The gold and the crystal cannot equal it; and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls; for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Page xi - To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music...
Page 32 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them : but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Page xii - ... ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Page 50 - O come, let us worship, and fall down : and kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is the Lord our God : and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Page 31 - WE HAVE heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
Page 184 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 119 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.