Wanderings and Musings in the Valleys of the WaldensesNisbet, 1858 - 389 páginas |
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... amid yonder crags , and leaped with the wild shout of young freedom from precipice to precipice ; but now they have caught the spirit of the scene in which they are moving , and steal onwards with softened flow , as if they feared to ...
... amid yonder crags , and leaped with the wild shout of young freedom from precipice to precipice ; but now they have caught the spirit of the scene in which they are moving , and steal onwards with softened flow , as if they feared to ...
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... amid the busiest scenes , Or scorn'd where business never intervenes . " 11 Here are herdsmen with their kine - simple men , unversed in the world's ways . The " wars and rumours of wars " that agitate the city's popu- lation , never ...
... amid the busiest scenes , Or scorn'd where business never intervenes . " 11 Here are herdsmen with their kine - simple men , unversed in the world's ways . The " wars and rumours of wars " that agitate the city's popu- lation , never ...
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... amid the storms and torrents of the vale . When they have fulfilled their allotted number of such days , they cease to be seen any more upon the pasture - grounds . Another leads forth their flock , and an additional furrow in the quiet ...
... amid the storms and torrents of the vale . When they have fulfilled their allotted number of such days , they cease to be seen any more upon the pasture - grounds . Another leads forth their flock , and an additional furrow in the quiet ...
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... easy distance of it . You escape , at last , from this labyrinth of rock and wood , and come out upon the grassy shoulders of the mountain , amid its breezes and B wild flowers and herds . A feeling of despair seizes.
... easy distance of it . You escape , at last , from this labyrinth of rock and wood , and come out upon the grassy shoulders of the mountain , amid its breezes and B wild flowers and herds . A feeling of despair seizes.
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... amid knolls wavy with woods and golden with grain . What a goodly sight it is to see the morning break upon them ! To stand and mark their golden flash- ing top , then their long descending silvery robe , and , last of all , the broad ...
... amid knolls wavy with woods and golden with grain . What a goodly sight it is to see the morning break upon them ! To stand and mark their golden flash- ing top , then their long descending silvery robe , and , last of all , the broad ...
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Alps amid Angrogna Apennines army ascended Balsile beauty beneath betwixt blood Bobbio bottom Bricherasio Castelluzzo centuries châlets chestnut Church cliffs climb clouds Clusone Cottian Alps crags dark dark peaks deep defile descend Dr Revel earth enemies eternal fathers feet flowers gleam glorious glory gorge grandeur green heaven height Henri Arnaud herdsmen hills House of Savoy hundred Italy Janavel land liberty look massacre meadows mighty mist Mont Blanc Monte Viso morning moun mountain noble pass pastor path peaks peasants Pelice Perosa Peter Waldo Pianezza Piedmont Piedmontese Pignerollo plain of Piedmont Pomaret Prali precipices ravine rises rock rolling Rome rose Samuel Morland Savoy scene seen shadows shew side slopes snows soldiers spot stand stood sublime summit tain temple thunder Torre torrent towering traversed trees Turin vale Valley of Luserna Valley of Rora Vaudois village Villaro vine Waldenses Waldensian wall
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Página 364 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Página 382 - And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. 6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
Página 238 - God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance ; thy holy temple have they defiled ; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
Página 245 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Página 109 - Walk about Zion, and go round about her : Tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, Consider her palaces ; That ye may tell it to the generation following : For this God is our God for ever and ever : He will be our guide even unto death.
Página 187 - And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall, he corrupt by flatteries ; but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
Página 238 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Página 238 - The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Página 144 - As thou these ashes, little Brook ! wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main Ocean they, this deed accurst An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold Teacher's Doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.
Página 259 - While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.