Hallelujah: Or, Britain's Second Remembrancer; Bringing to Remembrance (in Praiseful and Penitential Hymns, Spiritual Songs, and Moral Odes,) Meditations, Advancing the Glory of God, in the Practice of Piety and VirtueJ. R. Smith, 1857 - 399 pages |
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23rd Psalm 4th Psalm Anglo-Saxon appear bestow bliss body bring British Museum Christ Church cloth comfort command confess creatures death delight desire doth earth ease ev'ry day evermore faith favour fear flesh foes friends GEORGE WITHER give glory God's grief grieve grow Hallelujah hath hear heart heed holy honour hope humble J. O. Halliwell John Yonge Akerman keep labour let Thy likewise live Lord Lord's Prayer Mark Antony meditations mind musings offence original price pain passions peace pleasure poetry poets Post 8vo pow'r praise Thee pray Preserve remember repent RUSSELL SMITH sanctify Shakespeare Sing sins SOHO SQUARE song song of praise sorrow soul sweet baby Te Deum Ten Commandments thankful thereby therein Thine things Thou art Thou didst Thou dost Thou hast Thou shalt thought Thy grace Thy love Thy mercy Thy name Thy praise Thy Word tongue unto vex'd Vouchsafe Whilst
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Page x - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18. Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page ix - Angels and supernal powers, Be the noblest tenor yours : Let, in praise of God, the sound Run a never-ending round, That our song of praise may be Everlasting, as is He.
Page x - And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power. Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Page ix - Let those things which do not live, In still music praises give ; Lowly pipe, ye worms that creep, On the earth, or in the deep ; Loud aloft your voices strain, Beasts and monsters of the main ; Birds, your warbling treble sing ; Clouds, your peals of thunders ring ; Sun and moon, exalted higher, And bright stars, augment the choir.
Page x - The mountains saw thee, and they trembled : The overflowing of the water passed by: The deep uttered his voice, And lifted up his hands on high. The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: At the light of thine arrows they went, And at the shining of thy glittering spear.
Page 67 - Sweet baby, sleep ! what ails my dear, What ails my darling thus to cry ? Be still, my child, and lend thine ear, To hear me sing thy lullaby. My pretty lamb, forbear to weep ; Be still, my dear ; sweet baby, sleep.