Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and Others: Held in Cephalonia, a Short Time Previous to His Lordship's DeathJohn Murray, 1830 - 461 Seiten |
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Seite 291 - No useless coffin enclosed his breast; Nor in sheet nor shroud we bound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word in sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face
Seite 90 - The Lord said unto the serpent, '' Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust thou shalt eat all the days of thy life. And I will put enmity between thee
Seite 290 - Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moon-beam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No
Seite 291 - the hour for retiring; And we heard, by the distant and random gun, That the foe was suddenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame, fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But
Seite 90 - cursed be the ground for thy sake, in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field ; in the sweat of thy face shalt
Seite 101 - Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces;..... and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the earth§.
Seite 103 - The ram which thou sawest, having two horns, are the kings of Media and Persia, and the rough goat is the king of Grecia; and the great horn that is between his eyes, is the first king. Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation*.
Seite 102 - against them till the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given to the Saints of the Most High, and the time came that the Saints should possess the kingdom
Seite 96 - a wild man, and his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him, and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. The
Seite 105 - Daniel says, from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, shall be 1290 days. The