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... soul the solemn fugue - notes of ancient Revelation . But that which chiefly serves to redeem a certain propor- tion of the theological literature of the seventeenth century from oblivion , is its association with the national history ...
... soul the solemn fugue - notes of ancient Revelation . But that which chiefly serves to redeem a certain propor- tion of the theological literature of the seventeenth century from oblivion , is its association with the national history ...
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... soul to apprehend The sublime notion , and high mystery , That must be utter'd to unfold the sage And serious doctrine of virginity ; And thou art worthy that thou should'st not know More happiness than this thy present lot . Enjoy your ...
... soul to apprehend The sublime notion , and high mystery , That must be utter'd to unfold the sage And serious doctrine of virginity ; And thou art worthy that thou should'st not know More happiness than this thy present lot . Enjoy your ...
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... soul only is saved by its victory . The spirit of evil still ranges the wood of darkness to entice and destroy travellers that pass that way . The underlying thought — the individual ✓ probation of every human soul , fighting out the ...
... soul only is saved by its victory . The spirit of evil still ranges the wood of darkness to entice and destroy travellers that pass that way . The underlying thought — the individual ✓ probation of every human soul , fighting out the ...
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... soul has passed to Elysian fields : ' There entertain him all the saints above , In solemn troops , and sweet societies , That sing , and singing in their glory , move , And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes . Now , Lycidas , the ...
... soul has passed to Elysian fields : ' There entertain him all the saints above , In solemn troops , and sweet societies , That sing , and singing in their glory , move , And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes . Now , Lycidas , the ...
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... soul against the baffling and inscrutable dis- location of the world , the protest that found its earliest and noblest expression in the drama of Job . In the Greek tragedians the note of despair predominates , but in Samson , as in Job ...
... soul against the baffling and inscrutable dis- location of the world , the protest that found its earliest and noblest expression in the drama of Job . In the Greek tragedians the note of despair predominates , but in Samson , as in Job ...
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Page 23 - There entertain him all the saints above In solemn troops, and sweet societies That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Page 50 - To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues. In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East. Still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few.
Page 114 - My gazing soul would dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity; Before I taught my tongue to wound My Conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense A several sin to every sense; But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness.
Page 58 - Their dread commander ; he above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and th...
Page 23 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Page 9 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so,. As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.
Page 111 - O thou undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires, By all the eagle in thee, all the dove, By all thy lives and deaths of love, By thy large draughts of intellectual day, And by thy thirsts of love more large than they, By all thy...
Page 124 - ON A GIRDLE THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done.
Page 101 - Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together! And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather. Time shall moult away his wings Ere he shall discover In the whole wide world again Such a constant lover.
Page 24 - ... from his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more ; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood. Thus sang the uncouth swain to the oaks and rills, While the still morn went out with sandals gray ; He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay...