The Pleasure of ReadingM. Kennerley, 1909 - 338 Seiten |
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... the night become the touches of sweet harmony . " Let the right at- mosphere be made and the right mood realized before you listen to the poet's " Soft songs . Then will such a psalm as the nineteenth [ 53 ] READING THE BIBLE.
... the night become the touches of sweet harmony . " Let the right at- mosphere be made and the right mood realized before you listen to the poet's " Soft songs . Then will such a psalm as the nineteenth [ 53 ] READING THE BIBLE.
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... realize the calamities that had befallen him when he himself was afflicted by a loathsome dis- ease . He became an outcast and a dweller with the dogs on the village ash- mound . As he lived there wondering why God had thus punished him ...
... realize the calamities that had befallen him when he himself was afflicted by a loathsome dis- ease . He became an outcast and a dweller with the dogs on the village ash- mound . As he lived there wondering why God had thus punished him ...
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... , in a poem of magnificent grandeur , hum- bles Job to the very dust . Then does Job realize that true wisdom is not to be found in knowledge but in faith . When he has realized this in its fulness he is able [ 63 ] READING THE BIBLE.
... , in a poem of magnificent grandeur , hum- bles Job to the very dust . Then does Job realize that true wisdom is not to be found in knowledge but in faith . When he has realized this in its fulness he is able [ 63 ] READING THE BIBLE.
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Temple Scott. he has realized this in its fulness he is able to say , " Though he slay me , yet will I trust him . " But he comes to this wis- dom only after he has been shown that the mystery of evil is but the least of the mysteries of ...
Temple Scott. he has realized this in its fulness he is able to say , " Though he slay me , yet will I trust him . " But he comes to this wis- dom only after he has been shown that the mystery of evil is but the least of the mysteries of ...
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... realizing the poem as our own personal experience . If the poem have any meaning or value it is here that these are made manifest ; meaning and value are precipitated in the crucible of our consciousness . Art has no purpose other than ...
... realizing the poem as our own personal experience . If the poem have any meaning or value it is here that these are made manifest ; meaning and value are precipitated in the crucible of our consciousness . Art has no purpose other than ...
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Seite 102 - Nor less, I trust, To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime ; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened : — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on.
Seite 169 - Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
Seite 52 - There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Seite 173 - Above their functions and their offices. It adds a precious seeing to the eye ; A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind ; A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd; Love's feeling is more soft, and sensible, Than are the tender horns of cockled snails...
Seite 44 - And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations : I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Seite 63 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Seite 173 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Seite 56 - The voice of my beloved ! behold he cometh Leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. My beloved is like a roe or a young hart : Behold, he standeth behind our wall, He looketh forth at the windows, Shewing himself through the lattice.
Seite 168 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Seite 96 - Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy ! O, Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?