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... of light ; All nature present to my view . And is the glorious vision true ? The wise man's words at length are plain , Whose sense so long I sought in vain . The world of spirits no clouds conceal ; Man's eye Goëthe ; Faust . 13.
... of light ; All nature present to my view . And is the glorious vision true ? The wise man's words at length are plain , Whose sense so long I sought in vain . The world of spirits no clouds conceal ; Man's eye Goëthe ; Faust . 13.
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... eye rests on the sign of the spirit of the earth . Of heaven he asked its highest stars , and heaven has refused him . Earth then shall yield him hers . Here he has found a spirit kindred with his own . 6 Fearlessly I read the sign ...
... eye rests on the sign of the spirit of the earth . Of heaven he asked its highest stars , and heaven has refused him . Earth then shall yield him hers . Here he has found a spirit kindred with his own . 6 Fearlessly I read the sign ...
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... eyes and stand face to face with the great God of the Universe , and ask Him what He is . To which miserable pre- sumption , what other answer can be given than to fling him back , crushed and helpless , upon a sense of his own ...
... eyes and stand face to face with the great God of the Universe , and ask Him what He is . To which miserable pre- sumption , what other answer can be given than to fling him back , crushed and helpless , upon a sense of his own ...
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... eyes of men ; They have been nailed to crosses , thrown to flames . Pardon me , but ' tis very late , my friend , ' & c . & c . And Wagner gathers up this view of human life and matters , and stows it away delightedly as a fresh fact in ...
... eyes of men ; They have been nailed to crosses , thrown to flames . Pardon me , but ' tis very late , my friend , ' & c . & c . And Wagner gathers up this view of human life and matters , and stows it away delightedly as a fresh fact in ...
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... eye , and holds it there , as though The flask a very magnet were ? And whence , O whence this lavish glow , This lustre of enchanted light , Poured down at once and everywhere- Birth of the moment - like the flood Of splendour round us ...
... eye , and holds it there , as though The flask a very magnet were ? And whence , O whence this lavish glow , This lustre of enchanted light , Poured down at once and everywhere- Birth of the moment - like the flood Of splendour round us ...
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Page 100 - Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.
Page 274 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Page 250 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied—- We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came, dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours.
Page 263 - ... there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, •'' there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative, when they find the legislative act_ contrary to the trust reposed in them.
Page 100 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I g-alloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; "Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ; "Speed!
Page 145 - And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
Page 443 - The many rend the skies with loud applause ; So Love was crown'd, but Music won the cause. The prince, unable to conceal his pain, Gaz'd on the fair Who caus'd his care, And sigh'd and look'd, sigh'd and look'd, Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again : At length, with love and wine at once oppress'd, The vanquish'd victor sunk upon her breast.
Page 214 - You know what my manner of life hath been. Oh, I lived in and loved darkness, and hated the light. I was a chief, the chief of sinners. This is true; I hated godliness, yet God had mercy on me.
Page 216 - Thus I have given you a true, but not a full account of this great business; wherein he that runs may read, That all this is none other than the work of God. He must be a very Atheist that doth not acknowledge it.
Page 273 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.