Of "Fifine at the Fair" "Christmas Eve and Easter-day": And Other of Mr. Browning's PoemsW. Blackwood and sons, 1892 - 99 pages |
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... Christian life . " Christmas Eve " is the poem of the brightness of its dawning ; " Easter- Day " the poem of its resurrection triumph , after the " Cross and passion " of its workaday hours . It is this link which binds the two into ...
... Christian life . " Christmas Eve " is the poem of the brightness of its dawning ; " Easter- Day " the poem of its resurrection triumph , after the " Cross and passion " of its workaday hours . It is this link which binds the two into ...
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... Christian life pressed sore upon him , it was in Easter - day , and the event it commemorates , he found the assurance his soul needed , that in taking up Christ's Cross , we are not asked to " renounce life for the sake of death , and ...
... Christian life pressed sore upon him , it was in Easter - day , and the event it commemorates , he found the assurance his soul needed , that in taking up Christ's Cross , we are not asked to " renounce life for the sake of death , and ...
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... Christ . " This sight was shown me , there and then , — Me , one out of a world of men , Singled forth , as the chance might hap To another , if in a thunderclap Where I heard noise , and you saw flame , 46 OF CHRISTMAS EVE . "
... Christ . " This sight was shown me , there and then , — Me , one out of a world of men , Singled forth , as the chance might hap To another , if in a thunderclap Where I heard noise , and you saw flame , 46 OF CHRISTMAS EVE . "
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... apostrophe : — " Oh , Love of those first Christian days ! " that had power to dethrone the antique sovereign Intellect , and with Greece and Rome in ken taught men to abhor poetry , rhetoric , sculpture , painting OF CHRISTMAS EVE . " 51.
... apostrophe : — " Oh , Love of those first Christian days ! " that had power to dethrone the antique sovereign Intellect , and with Greece and Rome in ken taught men to abhor poetry , rhetoric , sculpture , painting OF CHRISTMAS EVE . " 51.
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... Christ is derivable ( Since plainly no such life was liveable ) . Whether ' twere best opine Christ was , Or never was at all , or whether He was and was not , both together— It matters little for the name , So the idea be left the same ...
... Christ is derivable ( Since plainly no such life was liveable ) . Whether ' twere best opine Christ was , Or never was at all , or whether He was and was not , both together— It matters little for the name , So the idea be left the same ...
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