The Great Poets and Their Theology |
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Achilles Æneid agnosticism Alfred Tennyson artistic beauty believe Browning's called character Christ Christian church conscience Dante Dante's dark dead death declares divine Divine Comedy doctrine dramatic earth earthly epic eternal evil expression eyes fact faith Faust feeling freedom genius Georgics give God's gods Goethe Goethe's greatest Greek guilt hear heart heaven hell Holy Homer hope ideal Iliad imagination immortal Italy John Milton King light literary literature live Locksley Hall Lord Lucretius Macbeth man's Memoriam Milton mind moral never Odyssey pantheistic Paradise Paradise Lost passion Peisistratus philosophy poem poet poet's poetic poetry prayer punishment purgatory regard religion Robert Browning Roman Rome Satan Scripture seems sense Shakespeare song sorrow soul spirit story sublime Tennyson thee theology things thou thought tion true truth unity universe verse Virgil voice whole words Wordsworth writing youth Zeus
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Page 203 - Get thee to a nunnery ; why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners ? I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better my mother had not borne me ; I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious ; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.
Page 353 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 366 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create *, And what perceive...
Page 198 - It blesseth him that gives and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this scepter'd sway, — It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 232 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Page 181 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Page 216 - Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 365 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on...
Page 217 - Fear no more the frown o' the great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak; The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this and come to dust.
Page 370 - Stern Law-giver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face.