Sacred Poems, from Subjects of the Old TestamentSaunders and Otley, 1843 - 176 páginas |
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Sacred Poems: From Subjects in the Old Testament (1843) John Edmund Reade Prévia não disponível - 2008 |
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Ajax altar angels Aristotle art thou beauty beneath blessing breast breath Brent Tor brow burst calm Celts children of Israel clouds dare darkness DARTMOOR dead death deep Democritus didst divine doth dust dwell dwelt earth Egypt eternal everlasting face faith fear feel felt flame forehead forgot gaze gleam glory Godhead granite grey hath hear heard heart heaven Heraclitus holy hope human hurled Iliad images immortal impulses infinite Israel JAEL life's light living looked Lord Manaton Menhir mighty mind moral Nature Nature's night o'er passion Peleus Plato pride Prophet Pythagoras raised rays rest rise rocks rose round SAUL scene setting sun shadow shrine silent sire Sisera solemn solitude sought soul spirit starry stars stood sublime Taranis temple Teutates thee thine thou art thou dost Thou hast thought throne thunder Tiresias tomb truth vision voice watching waves wild wind wisdom
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Página 109 - And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones : and they took stones, and made an heap ; and they did eat there upon the heap. And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha : but Jacob called it Galeed. 48 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day.
Página 40 - They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the congregation.
Página 112 - He was of an high mind, and loved his own will and his own way; as one that revered himself, and would reign indeed. Had he been a private man he would have been termed proud: but in a wise prince, it was but keeping of distance; which indeed he did towards all; not admitting any near or full approach either to his power or to his secrets.
Página 174 - In the sun's orb, made porous to receive And drink the liquid light ; firm to retain Her gather'd beams, great palace now of light. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...
Página 173 - Plato), a dark remembrance of divinity and perfection. This inborn and implanted recollection of the godlike, remains ever dark and mysterious; for man is surrounded by the sensible world which, being in itself changeable and imperfect, encircles him with images of imperfection, changeableness, corruption, and error, and thus casts perpetual obscurity over that light which is within him.
Página 174 - there is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth him understanding.
Página 112 - Nothing can be known, nothing can be learned, nothing can be certain ; sense is limited, intellect is weak, life is short.
Página 62 - PLATO says, that according to tradition, "the living were born of the dead, the same as the dead did come of the living; and that this is the constant routine of Nature." He adds from himself, "who knows, if to live, be not to die; and if to die, be not to live?
Página 173 - ... certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. (It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. From an original and infinitely more lofty and intellectual state of existence, there remains to man, according to the philosophy of Plato, a dark remembrance of divinity and perfection. Yet, in the...
Página 130 - Et quibus immitis placatur sanguine diro Teutates, horrensque feris altaribus Hesus; Et Taranis scythicae non mitior ara Dianae.