| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| Page 303 |
| Isaac Watts. (1674–1748) (continued) |
| 3268 |
| And while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return. |
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book i. Hymn 88. |
| 3269 |
| Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long! |
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book ii. Hymn 19. |
| 3270 |
| Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound. |
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book ii. Hymn 63. |
| 3271 |
| The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours. |
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book ii. Hymn 63. |
| 3272 |
| When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I ’ll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. |
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book ii. Hymn 65. |
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| There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. |
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book ii. Hymn 66. |
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| So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And ’t is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain. |
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book ii. Hymn 146. |
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| Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul: The mind ’s the standard of the man. 1 |
| Horæ Lyricæ, Book ii. False Greatness. |
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| To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven. |
| Doxology. |
| Note 1. I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.—Seneca: On a Happy Life (L’Estrange’s Abstract), chap. i. It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.—Ovid: Metamorphoses, xiii. [back] |
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