The Two Brothers: And Other PoemsR. Carter and brothers, 1871 - 324 pages |
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... souls . In the progress of the dramatic development of the plan , the interest is well sustained , and holds the unflagging attention of the reader to the last . If , along with a power to appreciate charming language and the harmonies ...
... souls . In the progress of the dramatic development of the plan , the interest is well sustained , and holds the unflagging attention of the reader to the last . If , along with a power to appreciate charming language and the harmonies ...
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... soul , its moral and religious nature . We are , - indeed , fully of the opinion that poetry , to be of the highest order , must always be subservient to an end , or ends , beyond that of merely affording a transient pleasure . As one ...
... soul , its moral and religious nature . We are , - indeed , fully of the opinion that poetry , to be of the highest order , must always be subservient to an end , or ends , beyond that of merely affording a transient pleasure . As one ...
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... soul to the loftiest regions of thought , and of kindling in it the emotions and sentiments that are most worthy of its origin and its eternal relations . It has too often been degraded by being made the vehicle of what was fitted only ...
... soul to the loftiest regions of thought , and of kindling in it the emotions and sentiments that are most worthy of its origin and its eternal relations . It has too often been degraded by being made the vehicle of what was fitted only ...
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... SOUL NO MORE CRYING HYMNS : : - I. THE PRINCE OF PEACE II . THE ROCK OF AGES III . THE HIDING - PLACE • 230 · 231 234 239 242 245 247 249 IV . ABIDE IN ME 251 • V. HYMN TO THE HOLY TRINITY . 253 VI . THE TRUMPET OF JUBILEE 255 VII ...
... SOUL NO MORE CRYING HYMNS : : - I. THE PRINCE OF PEACE II . THE ROCK OF AGES III . THE HIDING - PLACE • 230 · 231 234 239 242 245 247 249 IV . ABIDE IN ME 251 • V. HYMN TO THE HOLY TRINITY . 253 VI . THE TRUMPET OF JUBILEE 255 VII ...
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... soul once scarr'd with sin . Brother , thou wert ever to me as a young and golden mist Floating through blue liquid heavens , with the morning sunlight kiss'd ; Which the eye looks up and blesses , lingering on its track With an old ...
... soul once scarr'd with sin . Brother , thou wert ever to me as a young and golden mist Floating through blue liquid heavens , with the morning sunlight kiss'd ; Which the eye looks up and blesses , lingering on its track With an old ...
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Page 274 - I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Page 314 - After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful, and terrible, and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it; and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.
Page 249 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Page 313 - His ego nee metas rerum nee tempora pono ; imperium sine fine dedi.
Page 259 - And now why tarriest thou ? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Page 276 - Oh, let the words -*- Linger on the trembling chords ; Let the " little while " between In their golden light be seen ; Let us think how heaven and home Lie beyond that
Page 247 - Our years are like the shadows On sunny hills that lie, Or grasses in the meadows That blossom but to die ; A sleep, a dream, a story By strangers quickly told, An unremaining glory Of things that soon are old.
Page 67 - And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord...
Page 91 - This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, " I am, and there is none beside me:" how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in ! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
Page 106 - The LORD is slow to anger. and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked : the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.