Essays, Addresses and Lyrical TranslationsMacmillan, 1893 - 340 pages |
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... tell us that these compositions - remarkable as they are - give but " an inadequate conception of his actual power , " and that " of him - above all his contemporaries - they agreed in forming the loftiest expectations . " After taking ...
... tell us that these compositions - remarkable as they are - give but " an inadequate conception of his actual power , " and that " of him - above all his contemporaries - they agreed in forming the loftiest expectations . " After taking ...
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... dark " and " unlovely , " and he shrinks within himself as he thinks of the " hand that can be clasp'd no more . " To tell him that there are thousands besides himself who are mourning the loss of friends , only 24 ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES .
... dark " and " unlovely , " and he shrinks within himself as he thinks of the " hand that can be clasp'd no more . " To tell him that there are thousands besides himself who are mourning the loss of friends , only 24 ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES .
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... tell us , the practical religion of spending our life for the benefit of our brethren , and thus losing our individual selfishness in devotion to the general good . And the only immortality on which we can safely reckon is an ...
... tell us , the practical religion of spending our life for the benefit of our brethren , and thus losing our individual selfishness in devotion to the general good . And the only immortality on which we can safely reckon is an ...
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... tell them that all their pain was not of the slightest consequence ? Did He not show His intense sympathy with them . in their afflictions ? and did not His works of healing reveal His appreciation of all healthy conditions of human ...
... tell them that all their pain was not of the slightest consequence ? Did He not show His intense sympathy with them . in their afflictions ? and did not His works of healing reveal His appreciation of all healthy conditions of human ...
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... tell us that such a life beyond death is a mere dream of the imagination , or is at best a peradventure - that it ought , therefore , to be left out It of calculation and regarded as of minor importance , and 44 ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES .
... tell us that such a life beyond death is a mere dream of the imagination , or is at best a peradventure - that it ought , therefore , to be left out It of calculation and regarded as of minor importance , and 44 ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES .
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Page 114 - tis no matter ; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? How then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ^ No. What is honour i A word. What is in that word, honour ? What is that honour? >Vir. A trim reckoning! —Who hath it t He that died o* Wednesday.
Page lv - That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life...
Page 20 - I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
Page 33 - Nor thro" the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice 'believe no more' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd 'I have felt.
Page 13 - As sometimes in a dead man's face, To those that watch it more and more, A likeness, hardly seen before, Comes out — to some one of his race : So, dearest, now thy brows are cold, I see thee what thou art, and know Thy likeness to the wise below, Thy kindred with the great of old.
Page 12 - And only thro' the faded leaf The chestnut pattering to the ground : Calm and deep peace on this high wold, And on these dews that drench the furze, And all the silvery gossamers That twinkle into green and gold...
Page 169 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Page 278 - And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation concerning the two brethren. But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister; and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom...
Page 108 - At seasons thro' the gilded pale : For who can always act ? but he, To whom a thousand memories call, Not being less but more than all The gentleness he...
Page 9 - O bliss, when all in circle drawn About him, heart and ear were fed To hear him as he lay and read The Tuscan poets on the lawn: Or in the all-golden afternoon A guest, or happy sister, sung, Or here she brought the harp and flung A ballad to the brightening moon...