The Secret of Death, from the Sanskrit, with Some Collected Poems

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Roberts brothers, 1885 - Death - 252 pages
 

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Page 5 - THE LIGHT OF ASIA ; or, THE GREAT RENUNCIATION (Mahabhinishkramana). Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India, and Founder of Buddhism (as told in verse by an Indian Buddhist). By Edwin Arnold, MA, CSI , &c.
Page 246 - Buddhistical books yet agree in the one point of recording nothing — no single act or word — which mars the perfect purity and tenderness of this Indian teacher, who united the truest princely qualities with the intellect of a sage and the passionate devotion of a martyr.
Page 246 - Hindus are clearly due to the benign influence of Buddha's precepts. More than a third of mankind, therefore, owe their moral and religious ideas to this illustrious prince, whose personality, though imperfectly revealed in the existing sources of information, cannot but appear the highest, gentlest, holiest, and most beneficent, with one exception, in the history of Thought.
Page 39 - Embracing all things, yet i' the midst of all, The mind, enlightened, casts its grief away ! " ' It is not to be known by knowledge ! man •Wotteth it not by wisdom ! learning vast Halts short of it ! Only by soul itself Is soul perceived — when the Soul wills it so ! There shines no light save its own light to show Itself unto itself...
Page 138 - Bears no badge nor sign, Save the Light which dyes it white — The Hope that makes it shine. We are they whose bugle rings, That all the wars may cease ; We are they will pay the Kings Their cruel price for Peace ; We are they whose steadfast watchword Is what Christ did teach, — " Each man for his Brother first — And Heaven, then, for each.
Page 111 - Our of all the hundred fair Madonnas Seen in many a rich and distant city — Sweet Madonnas, with the mother's bosoms ; Sad Madonnas, with the eyes of anguish ; Rapt Madonnas, caught in clouds to heaven (Clouds of golden, glad, adoring Angels) — She of Florence, in the chair, — so perfect ! She that was the " Grand Duke's " wealth and glory, She that makes the picture
Page 140 - We are they who will not falter — Many swords or few — Till we make this Earth the altar Of a worship new ; We are they who will not take From palace, priest, or code, A meaner Law than " Brotherhood "— A lower Lord than God. Marching down to Armageddon — Brothers, stout and strong ! Ask not why the way we tread on Is so rough and long ! God will tell us when our spirits Grow to grasp His plan ! Let us do our part to-day — And help Him, helping Man!
Page 5 - PEARLS OF THE FAITH ; or, Islam's Rosary : being the Ninety-nine beautiful names of Allah. With Comments in Verse from various Oriental sources as made by an Indian Mussulman. By Edwin Arnold, MA, CSI, &c. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, pp. xvi. and 320, cloth. 1883. 7s. 6d. ARNOLD.— THE LIGHT OF ASIA ; or, THE GREAT RENUNCIATION (Mahabhinishkramana).
Page 62 - Next morning this is what was viewed in town : Dawn coming ! — people going ! — some adown Praying, some crying ; pallid cheeks, swift feet, And a huge Lion stalking through the street ! IV. The quaking townsmen in the cellars hid ; How make resistance ? briefly, no one did ; The soldiers left their posts, the gates stood wide...
Page 249 - Fair is the season with new leaves, bright blooms, Green grass, and cries of plough-time." So they rode Into a land of wells and gardens, where, All up and down the rich red loam, the steers Strained their strong shoulders in the creaking yoke Dragging the ploughs ; the fat soil rose and rolled In smooth dark waves back from the plough ; who drove Planted both feet upon the leaping share To make the furrow deep ; among the palms The tinkle of the rippling water rang, And where it ran the glad earth...

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