Sights and Thoughts in Foreign Churches and Among Foreign Peoples, Volume 2 |
Common terms and phrases
Acropolis Altar Anaxandridas ancient Ancona Apostle Areopagus Athenian Athens awful beauty blessed blue Boeotia bold bright catholic Christian cloud columns communion consistory Corfu Corinth Cross dark deep Delphi divine dreams earth ephors Epidaurus episcopacy epoch Euboea faith fear feelings gaze glory God's Greece Greek Church green Gulf Hadrian's gate heart heathen Heaven Hellespont hills holy Hymettus Iero island land Latin light looked Lord magnificent moral mountain Mycena mysterious nature night Olympeion Oropo paganism papacy Parnassian Parthenon Patras Peter's successor Pheidippus pillars Pirĉus plain priest primitive Propylaa replied reverence ritual Rome round rude ruined scene scenery Scripture sea of Marmara seemed shore side sight Smyrna solemn soul spirit standing stranger sweet temple thee things thou thought tion town trees Troad truth voice whole wind wonderful worship
Popular passages
Page 474 - O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
Page 473 - Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone...
Page 635 - And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, "Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness...
Page 474 - Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; And, happy melodist, unwearied, For ever piping songs for ever new; More happy love! more happy, happy love! For ever warm and still to be enjoyed, For ever panting, and for ever young; All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.
Page 474 - Ah, happy, happy boughs ! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; And, happy melodist, unwearied, For ever piping songs for ever new ; More happy love ! more happy, happy love ! For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd, For ever panting and for ever young...
Page 532 - I gazo aloof On the tissued roof, . . Where time and space are the warp and woof, Which the King of kings As a curtain flings O'er the dreadfulness of eternal things...
Page 473 - THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady ? What men or gods are these?
Page 474 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone : Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare ; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve ; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Page 539 - For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Page 508 - ... unimaginable lodge For solitary thinkings; such as dodge Conception to the very bourne of heaven, Then leave the naked brain: be still the leaven, That spreading in this dull and clodded earth Gives it a touch ethereal — a new birth: Be still a symbol of immensity; A firmament reflected in a sea; An element filling the space between; An unknown — but no more : we humbly screen With uplift hands our foreheads, lowly bending, And giving out a shout most heaven-rending, Conjure thee to receive...