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... matters of fact they are often even carried away by it , without any volition of their own . I am not denying that a strong and ready memory is in itself a treasure ; I am not disparaging a well- stored mind , though it be nothing ...
... matters of fact they are often even carried away by it , without any volition of their own . I am not denying that a strong and ready memory is in itself a treasure ; I am not disparaging a well- stored mind , though it be nothing ...
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... Mr Wilfrid Ward , " to estimate the number of those who sought his help during the last forty years of his life * Problems and Persons ( WILFRID WARD ) . in theological matters , and many have been guided by ΙΟ PERSONAL FORCES.
... Mr Wilfrid Ward , " to estimate the number of those who sought his help during the last forty years of his life * Problems and Persons ( WILFRID WARD ) . in theological matters , and many have been guided by ΙΟ PERSONAL FORCES.
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Arthur Compton-Rickett. in theological matters , and many have been guided by him in other matters . In his measure , and allow- ing for the difference of gifts and circumstances , he carried out the kind of work done by his own St ...
Arthur Compton-Rickett. in theological matters , and many have been guided by him in other matters . In his measure , and allow- ing for the difference of gifts and circumstances , he carried out the kind of work done by his own St ...
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... matters looked to him like puerile cock - sureness . The perceptive temperament is the temperament of the artist pure and simple . On the religious side art is always pantheistic . Its aim , it has been said , is to read off the ...
... matters looked to him like puerile cock - sureness . The perceptive temperament is the temperament of the artist pure and simple . On the religious side art is always pantheistic . Its aim , it has been said , is to read off the ...
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... matter of sensitive nerves , and Browning's optimism may be attributed to his sound digestion . Temperament is explained in terms of medical diathesis , and although with the more moderate agnos- tics the cravings of man's religious ...
... matter of sensitive nerves , and Browning's optimism may be attributed to his sound digestion . Temperament is explained in terms of medical diathesis , and although with the more moderate agnos- tics the cravings of man's religious ...
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Page 95 - Winds thwarting winds bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky, The rocks that muttered close upon our ears, Black drizzling crags that spake by the way-side As if a voice were in them, the sick sight And giddy prospect of the raving stream, The unfettered clouds and region of the heavens, Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light, Were all like workings of one mind, the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree, Characters of the great Apocalypse, The types...
Page 132 - I met a lady in the meads Full beautiful - a faery's child, Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild.
Page 119 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Page 65 - The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.
Page 119 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer...
Page 159 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 106 - The floating Clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Page 133 - The moon was at its edge. The thick black cloud was cleft, and still The Moon was at its side : Like waters shot from some high crag, The lightning fell with never a jag A river steep and wide.
Page 96 - Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, in gladness lay Beneath him: - Far and wide the clouds were touched, And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle: sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life.
Page 106 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.