A ship came in two days arterwards, that must have been a hundred leagues further to the nor'ard when it happened, and her people reported that they thought heaven and 'arth was a coming together, out there in open water.
This is a portion of the country that, Heavenbe praised!
They had been several years wedded, and heaven seemed to smile most benignantly on their union.
I would bear thee onward To my realms of life, Where with joy transcendent All the scenes are rife, In that glorious dream-land, On that magic sea, It were nearer heaven Were I but with thee!
The road to heaven was not in his opinion over one narrow plank, which alone must be trodden in conformity with the creeds and synods of certain men in order to reach it.
Peru has been called “the heavenof women, the purgatory of husbands, and the hell of asses.
Thus they conformed themselves to their circumstances; and, in so doing, enjoyed the many blessings Heaven still reserved for them.
Let us in all the varied fortunes of human life look forward to that lamp which will enlighten the darkness of earth, the valley of death, and then become the bright and morning star in the heaven of heavens.
Almighty thunders from the swelling floods that lift to heaven their hoary breath, like clouds of smoking incense.
Not ours the verdict to decide Whom death shall claim or skill shall save: The hero's life though Heaven denied, It gave our land a martyr's grave.
Nine times ten million souls in his own tongue Prayed to the Almighty for his single life; But he had risen too near to heaven in his great flight To stoop again to earth, and so God took him, Like a star folded in more perfect light.
Slowly the stories of life are spent, Yet hope still battles with despair,-- Will heaven not yield when knees are bent?
What a blessed relief it was after the awful toil of crossing Heaven knows how many sand-ridges day after day!
Heaven knows how far they might go in a night unless stopped in time and dragged back to camp.
This good lady is the most curious of her sex that I have ever seen; now a little dried-up, wizened old woman of Heaven knows what age, she was in her younger days a lady of wonderful energy.
Did you ever know him to give up for weather of any kind, or for any other mortal thing in heaven or earth?
You might ha' cut it short by sayen "to Miss Aldclyffe," and leaven out heaven and earth as trifles.
The only pressure inheaven or earth which could have forced me to renounce Cytherea was now put upon me--the dread of a death upon the gallows.
I'll get her, if I move heaven and earth to do it!
Mr. Manston gie up for anything in heavenor earth, did you say?
Alexander raised his tearful eyes to Heaven and said, in accents coming from the soul, "I take God to witness, mother, that I did not order this awful crime to be done!
The ease and simplicity of all his ways contrasted so well with the splendid imagination with which Heaven had gifted him that I have never known a more lovable man than this excellent Ducis.
Besides, dreadful slanders were pouring upon my friends, my acquaintances and myself, although, Heaven knows, I had never hurt a living soul.
Dear as his daughter might become to him, all he dared to ask of Heaven was that she might be restored to that truer self which lay beneath her false and adventitious being.
Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heavenor hell.
What blame to the meek Quaker, if she took her lost hope to make the hills of heaven more fair?
Of God and heaven he had heard so little, that they were to him what fairy-land is to a child: something real, but not here; very far off.
Sweet is your slumber in the quiet earth; And soon the voice of heaven shall bid you rise To meet rewarding smiles in yonder skies.
Pains that no balm of heaven or earth can heal; To live in groans, and yield their parting breath Without a joy in life--or hope in death.
When heaven is all serene and fair, Full many a brighter gem we meet; 'Tis when the tempest hovers there, Thy beam is most divinely sweet.
For He hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary: from heavendid the Lord behold the earth.
In that consecrated cave he spreads out the panorama; and lifting up his eyes to heaven for light, he traces the picture to see what "the Spirit of Christ which was in" him "did signify.
Not look to what the earth but what the heaven will do.
What He taught He practised; what He promised he performed; the work He came from heaven to accomplish He actually "finished," even to the shedding of His blood.
No, if heaven fails you you cannot even see your own hand.
It was no less an object than this--the saving of a whole world--that brought Christ from heaven and raised up the Church on earth.
Some Christians have been deterred from the search after this blessing of heaven by the mistakes of those who have endeavoured to expound it, or by the hypocrisy of those who have assumed its profession that they might the better sin.
The people that are not anywhere; the people that are neither in heaven nor in earth; "the people that shall be created.
Yes, when the heaven falls; they shall be established with the same immortality as their Father in heaven.
Can you picture the suspense of heaven and hell when waiting Jehovah's fiat?
Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.
He made that heaven from which we can never shut our regard--we must see it; and in it He set those lights "for signs and for seasons and for days and for years.
But the moderns are sensible that this imaginary revolution of the heaven of the stars is nothing else than the revolution of the poles of the earth, which is performed in twenty-five thousand nine hundred years.
An Englishman, as one to whom liberty is natural, may go to heaven his own way.
To this error they added a second of much greater consequence, by imagining that the pretended heaven of the fixed stars advanced one degree eastward every hundred years.
Ay,' returned I, not knowing well what to think of the matter, 'heaven grant they may be both the better for it this day three months!
The misery that occasionally befell him during his wayward career has been made the basis of an accusation against society, the English constitution, Christianity--Heaven knows what.
Heaven when she has risen above all the everyday vulgarities of earthly love.
Heaven knows I have exhausted the conversation of the British Army these thirty years; but I dont leave it on that account.
Heaven forbid that Edith should be one of the combatants!
Young women come to me and ask me whether I think they ought to consent to marry the man they have decided to live with; and they are perplexed and astonished when I, who am supposed (heaven knows why!
There was no moon, but the heaven was throbbing with large white stars, and coronets sparkled on the heads of the dim giants of the southern range.
Side by side with the wide sunny spaces, the soft hills and unclouded heaven of the early schools of Perugia and Tuscany, they remain to us as types of what Italian art found most beautiful and sympathetic in nature.
Before these were reached the blue face of heaven was everywhere breaking through the mist-veil, and a fine day was assured.
When clouds part to show the vast glittering crest which overlooks Val di Zoldo we seem to realise 'the great and high wall' of the city coming down from heaven of Apocalyptic vision.
The leader advanced but slowly with misty folds clinging to each crag; but it had scarcely passed when the whole body was upon us, and the bright upper heaven was obscured by their fleecy forms.
But the crisis had been more violent than we dreamt at the time, and twenty-four hours of reparation were needed before the face of heaven could again shine in its full summer fairness.
The herdboy seemed simply stupefied at seeing five people drop suddenly on him from heaven knows where, and could scarcely answer our questions except with a prolonged stare.
The full blaze of an unclouded heaven was just tempered into the most delicious warmth by a gentle breath of air.
Heaven reserves strength and beauty for the children of love!
He blessed her for her granddaughter, as an admirer of nature blesses heaven for the wild flower that delights him with its perfume.
The strength of my constitution, my physician tells me, was all that saved me; but I believe that heaven wishes me to live, that I may drink to the bitter dregs my cup of humiliation.
They begged for a little happiness in heaven for her who had suffered so much on earth.
Often since that dreadful misfortune, I have asked heaven what crime I had committed that I should be so terribly punished?
Seeing you, usually so grave and austere, become for me so good, so indulgent, I thankedheaven for sending me a protector to replace those who are dead.
If, then, success crowns our efforts, it will be because heaven decreed it.
I swear before heaven that I never expected what you have just said to me, that I had not even a suspicion of it!
Sir," said the old man, "in the name of heavenlisten to me!
At every step, we meet in Paris people babbling to themselves, and unconsciously confiding to the four winds of heaven their dearest secrets, like cracked vases that allow their contents to steal away.
I wish to heaven your recollection would enable you to swear that it was Pharold," said the peer in a low but distinct voice.
When I am seeing anything fine, heaven deliver me from the proximity of a walking dictionary of technical terms!
I leave among you my wife, then a widow; and asHeaven knows I have dealt justly with you all, so, I beseech you, deal justly and kindly by her.
So get you gone, and Heavensend you a better heart and judgment.
It were vain to deny, however, that the hopes of both were raised, though Heaven knows those hopes were vague and indistinct enough.
Thou hast heard that heaven and earth are subject to my son because of his lordship over gods and men.
Therefore Heaven and Earth and Ocean and Hell itself have had experience of the potency of his weapons.
One thing is sure, to Correggio heaven would not be heavenwithout putti; and the chief difference that I see between putti and sure-enough babies is, that putti require no care and babies do.
But there was passing of strong drink, and then talk, and from it I gathered that these were all students from Pascale's, out on one of those student carousals, intent on heaven knows what!
Fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell," said William Morris.
He then offered incense and certain prayers to the gods, concluding the ceremony by asking a blessing from heaven for the newly wedded couple.
O, our lord, most serene and estimable, this thing was determined in heaven and in hell; this matter was considered and thou wast signaled out, upon thee fell the choice of the Lord our God.
They said, and confidently believed, that Cukulcan descended from heaven on the last day of the feast and received personally the gifts which were presented to him.
While in this state, seeming to belong neither to heavennor to earth, one of the most beautiful of the virgins consecrated to the service of the gods was brought to him.
For several centuries after St. Patrick the island was "the Isle of Saints," a place midway between heaven and earth, where angels and the saints of heaven came to dwell with mere mortals.
The great misfortune was that, even among the Irish themselves, nay, among friars and priests belonging to the race, the English Government sometimes, though Heaven be thanked!
Without examining the various formularies which heresy compelled an infallible Church to proclaim and impose upon her children from time to time, the Apostles' Creed alone transfers man at once into regions supernatural, into heaven itself.
What must it be when a whole nation, during nine long ages, offers toHeaven the most sublime virtues in the midst of the extremest trials?
Heaven alone was witness of the heroism displayed by the free clans wrestling with feudal England.
The Irish peasant was half starved, half naked, and half housed; the canopy of heaven being often the only roof to the mud-built walls of his cabin.
Can we imagine that the ears of Heaven were deaf to their prayers poured out unceasingly all those long days and nights of trials and of tears?
To all intents you are a Christian still, and if there is a God in Heaven you will undoubtedly receive your reward.
Whenever I open a paper and see Death of a Great Victorian, I thank Heaven there's one more of them gone.
Oh, God, send down fire from heaven to consume the blasphemer," said Lawson.
It's the dread of hell if you sin and the hope of Heaven if you are virtuous.
He joined his hands and held them towards heaven in supplication.
And heaven only knew what further projects Mr. Perkins turned in that untidy head of his.
Whence it had come Heaven alone knew, forHeaven alone could have sent it.
The lock-gates of heaven had been opened and the rain was descending in cataracts.
She was so eager that she forgot her weariness, and hurried on till she came at last to the mountain top, and there like a beautiful blue eye looking up to heaven lay the fairy spring.
The sad man smiled, and said he felt so near to heaven and his lost children up there that he should stay.
My father takes care of me, and my mother in heaven keeps me good, Lady Queen.
But if Enoch was content to follow the beaten ways of life, there was one window through which he looked into the upper heaven of all: thereby he saw what it is to create.
That placed our last journey on a homely, humorous basis, and we smiled, and reflected that we preferred going up the hill borne by friendly hands, with the light of heaven falling on our coffin-lids.
To be forgiven, to find herself free from the haunting consciousness that she could deceive the creature to whom she held such passionate allegiance--this was enough to shape a new heaven and a new earth.
Heaven the mind bestows, A Napier calculates and a Thomson glows.
