John Keble: An Essay on the Author of the 'Christian Year'

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Edmonston & Douglas, 1866 - 115 pages
 

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Page 97 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, ;'-. With whom the melodies abide Of th' everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.
Page 84 - Abide with me from morn till eve, For without thee I cannot live ; Abide with me when night is nigh, For without thee I dare not die.
Page 70 - O dearest, dearest boy ! my heart For better lore would seldom yearn, Could I but teach the hundredth part Of what from thee I learn.
Page 102 - THERE is a book, who runs may read, Which heavenly truth imparts, And all the lore its scholars need, Pure eyes and Christian hearts.
Page 103 - How quiet shews the woodland scene ! Each flower and tree, its duty done, Reposing in decay serene, Like weary men when age is won, Such calm old age as conscience pure And self-commanding hearts ensure, Waiting their summons to the sky, Content to live, but not afraid to die.
Page 16 - There are seven notes in the scale; make them fourteen; yet what a slender outfit for so vast an enterprise! What Science brings so much out of so little? out of what poor elements does some great master in it create his new world! "Shall we say that all this exuberant inventiveness is a mere ingenuity or trick of art, like some game or fashion of the day, without reality, without meaning?
Page 21 - The earth mourneth and languisheth ; Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down ; Sharon is like a wilderness ; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
Page 13 - As he spoke, how the old truth became new ! how it came home with a meaning never felt before ! He laid his finger—how gently, yet how powerfully!—on some inner place in the hearer's heart, and told him things about himself he had never known till then. Subtlest truths, which it would have taken philosophers pages of circumlocution and big words to state, were dropt out by the way in a sentence or two of the most transparent Saxon.
Page 7 - VoL X. — Biographical Memoirs of Adam Smith, LL.D., William Robertson, DD, and Thomas Reid, DD ; to which is prefixed a Memoir of Dugald Stewart, with Selections from his Correspondence, by John Veitch, MA Supplementary Vol. — Translations of the Passages in Foreign Languages contained in the Collected Works ; with General Index. 88 PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH. 23 Jerrold, Tennyson, Macaulay, and other Critical Essays. By JAMES HUTCHISON STIRLING, LL.D., Author of 'The Secret of Hegel.

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