Death and Liffe: An Alliterative PoemJohn Marcellus Steadman (Jr.) University, 1918 - 72 pages |
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... importance . St. Mary's was the Glaston- bury church , par excellence , our author mentions no other by name , it is thus not strange that he should place this church in the most prominent place of the scene he is describing . As for ...
... importance . St. Mary's was the Glaston- bury church , par excellence , our author mentions no other by name , it is thus not strange that he should place this church in the most prominent place of the scene he is describing . As for ...
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... Important as was Novalis ' contribution to the literature of Ger- man Romanticism , he preferred to think of himself as a man , not as a writer ; and in his case , especially , it is helpful , in interpreting his most finished work ...
... Important as was Novalis ' contribution to the literature of Ger- man Romanticism , he preferred to think of himself as a man , not as a writer ; and in his case , especially , it is helpful , in interpreting his most finished work ...
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... important matters and , before their meeting adjourned , they passed resolutions covering the Recommendations which they deemed it advisable to make . One of the Recommendations - the Seventeenth - is this : " That the teaching of the ...
... important matters and , before their meeting adjourned , they passed resolutions covering the Recommendations which they deemed it advisable to make . One of the Recommendations - the Seventeenth - is this : " That the teaching of the ...
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... detailed record of their performance of this great rôle and especially of this apparently trivial , but in reality very important , incident . Booth thus instructs " ye Novice , H. H. F ( Samuel A. Tannenbaum , M. D. 75.
... detailed record of their performance of this great rôle and especially of this apparently trivial , but in reality very important , incident . Booth thus instructs " ye Novice , H. H. F ( Samuel A. Tannenbaum , M. D. 75.
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... important incident of the loss of Desde- mona's handkerchief presents some very interesting problems for solution . If it be true that Desdemona 66 so loves the token- For [ Othello ] conjured her she should ever keep it- That she ...
... important incident of the loss of Desde- mona's handkerchief presents some very interesting problems for solution . If it be true that Desdemona 66 so loves the token- For [ Othello ] conjured her she should ever keep it- That she ...
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Page 161 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 159 - Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight; Death the Skeleton And Time the Shadow ; — there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of mossy stone, United worship ; or in mute repose To lie, and listen to the mountain flood Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.
Page 179 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
Page 186 - Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 188 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 142 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Page 146 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal ; but when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagiou, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Page 135 - Yea, Truth and Justice then Will down return to men, Orb'd in a rainbow; and, like glories wearing, Mercy will sit between Throned in celestial sheen, With radiant feet the tissued clouds down steering; And Heaven, as at some festival, Will open wide the gates of her high palace-hall.
Page 163 - ... language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much lo be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 174 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue, stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages...