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Page 37 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 32 - I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body.
Page 84 - Is there a heart that music cannot melt? Alas! how is that rugged heart forlorn! Is there, who ne'er those mystic transports felt Of solitude and melancholy born? He needs not woo the muse; he is her scom.
Page 194 - Three blind mice, three blind mice, See how they run, see how they run; They all ran after the farmer's wife, She cut off their tails with a carving knife; Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three blind mice?
Page 33 - But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee ; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Page 54 - Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms ; Where light-heel'd ghosts, and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold moon (as fame reports) Embodied thick perform their mystic rounds. No other merriment, dull tree ! is thine.
Page 194 - THREE BLIND MICE Three blind mice! See how they run! They all ran after the farmer's wife, Who cut off their tails with a carving knife. Did you ever see such a thing in your life As three blind mice?
Page 94 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved: if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Page 32 - Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body ; it is not therefore not of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing ? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling ? But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him.
Page 163 - O, throw away the worser part of it. And live the purer with the other half.