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  • Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.

    Life   Way   Tenors  
    Robert Blair, Thomas Gray, Beilby Porteus (1818). “The grave,: a poem,”, p.55
  • One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

    Hero   Numbers   Murder  
    William Falconer, Thomas Day, Robert Blair, Robert Glynn, Beilby Porteus (1822). “The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus”, p.283
  • The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.

    Exercise   Blessing   Joy  
    Beilby Porteus (1823). “Works of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, late Bishop of London: with his life”, p.13
  • Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express

  • War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

    Peace   War   Ten  
    'Death' (1759) l. 179
  • Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions.

    Beilby Porteus (1805). “Lectures on the gospel of St. Matthew; ...”, p.85
  • One murder makes a villian, millions a hero

    Hero   Murder   Millions  
  • But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.

    Men   Heaven   Lessons  
    William Falconer, Thomas Day, Robert Blair, Robert Glynn, Beilby Porteus (1822). “The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus”, p.288
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