Discourses, Reviews, and MiscellaniesCarter and Hendee, 1830 - 603 páginas |
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... We would ask , in what age or country has the pastoral reed breathed such sweet strains as are borne to us on the odorife- rous wings of gentle gales ' from Milton's Paradise ? We should not fulfil our duty , were we not 18.
... We would ask , in what age or country has the pastoral reed breathed such sweet strains as are borne to us on the odorife- rous wings of gentle gales ' from Milton's Paradise ? We should not fulfil our duty , were we not 18.
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William Ellery Channing. We should not fulfil our duty , were we not to say one word on what has been justly celebrated , the har- mony of Milton's versification . His numbers have the prime charm of expressiveness . They vary with , and ...
William Ellery Channing. We should not fulfil our duty , were we not to say one word on what has been justly celebrated , the har- mony of Milton's versification . His numbers have the prime charm of expressiveness . They vary with , and ...
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... duty . The introduction to the second book of his Reason of Church Government , ' shows us the workings of his mind on this subject , and is his best vindication from the charge we are now repelling . He says- Surely to every good and ...
... duty . The introduction to the second book of his Reason of Church Government , ' shows us the workings of his mind on this subject , and is his best vindication from the charge we are now repelling . He says- Surely to every good and ...
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... duty should be against me , when I would store up to myself the good provision of peaceful hours . ' Vol . I. pp . 139—41 . * He then goes on to speak of his consciousness of possessing great poetical powers , which he was most anxious ...
... duty should be against me , when I would store up to myself the good provision of peaceful hours . ' Vol . I. pp . 139—41 . * He then goes on to speak of his consciousness of possessing great poetical powers , which he was most anxious ...
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... duty , as a man . If indeed those with whom I have to contend , were able to produce direct attestation from Heaven to the truth of the doctrine which they espouse , it would be nothing less than impiety to venture to raise , I do not ...
... duty , as a man . If indeed those with whom I have to contend , were able to produce direct attestation from Heaven to the truth of the doctrine which they espouse , it would be nothing less than impiety to venture to raise , I do not ...
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Página 239 - ... to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory ; whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus ; whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Página 26 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ;...
Página 50 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Página 401 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Página 27 - ... faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe.
Página 13 - Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled...
Página 27 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Página 31 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 391 - The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
Página 26 - Thou hadst the diligence, the parts, the language of a man, if a vain subject were to be adorned or beautified; but when the cause of God and his Church was to be pleaded, for which purpose that tongue was given thee which thou hast, God listened if he could hear thy voice among his zealous servants, but thou wert dumb as a beast; from henceforward be that which thine own brutish silence hath made thee.