The Open Fire: And Other EssaysAbingdon Press, 1922 - 346 páginas |
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... Synge , the Irish dreamer , in the twen- tieth Christian century , imagines the holy prophets straining the bars of Paradise to lay eyes on Helen of Troy . That The conflagration of five sevenths of Rome ( 64 B. 26 THE OPEN FIRE.
... Synge , the Irish dreamer , in the twen- tieth Christian century , imagines the holy prophets straining the bars of Paradise to lay eyes on Helen of Troy . That The conflagration of five sevenths of Rome ( 64 B. 26 THE OPEN FIRE.
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... eyes . He closed the book , and sat there , venerable and lovable , with the light on his face . " Mrs. Wyatt Eaton tells of Louis Stevenson's visit to the Sanborn cottage at Point Pleasant on the THE OPEN FIRE : A REVERIE 29.
... eyes . He closed the book , and sat there , venerable and lovable , with the light on his face . " Mrs. Wyatt Eaton tells of Louis Stevenson's visit to the Sanborn cottage at Point Pleasant on the THE OPEN FIRE : A REVERIE 29.
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... eyes the world - worn man bowed his head on his breast and reverently repeated his earliest petition , " Now I lay me . " The voice of history cries to all mothers as in God's name : " Sing hymns to your little children and teach them ...
... eyes the world - worn man bowed his head on his breast and reverently repeated his earliest petition , " Now I lay me . " The voice of history cries to all mothers as in God's name : " Sing hymns to your little children and teach them ...
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... eyes , The dreams of love upon their beardless lips , Bartering dull age for immortality ; Their memories hold in Death's unyielding fee The youth that thrilled them to the finger tips . " In a Maryland mansion named Altodale , one of ...
... eyes , The dreams of love upon their beardless lips , Bartering dull age for immortality ; Their memories hold in Death's unyielding fee The youth that thrilled them to the finger tips . " In a Maryland mansion named Altodale , one of ...
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... eyes , and I can see no dignity in the faces of men ; when the friends of my youth are scattered and dead , and my eyes are evermore striving to look beyond to the distant horizon as for some country far away ; when long - gone forms ...
... eyes , and I can see no dignity in the faces of men ; when the friends of my youth are scattered and dead , and my eyes are evermore striving to look beyond to the distant horizon as for some country far away ; when long - gone forms ...
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Página 183 - Still thou turnedst, and still Beckonedst the trembler, and still Gavest the weary thy hand. If, in the paths of the world, Stones might have wounded thy feet, Toil or dejection have tried Thy spirit, of that we saw Nothing - to us thou wast still Cheerful, and helpful, and firm! Therefore to thee it was given Many to save with thyself; And, at the end of thy day, O faithful shepherd! to come, Bringing thy sheep in thy hand.
Página 184 - Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in the death of Christ, my God; All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
Página 326 - And if my standard-bearer fall, as fall full well he may, For never saw I promise yet of such a bloody fray, Press where ye see my white plume shine, amidst the ranks of war, And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre.
Página 13 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Página 213 - IF Jesus Christ is a man, — And only a man, — I say That of all mankind I cleave to him, And to him will I cleave alway. If Jesus Christ is a God, — And the only God, — I swear I will follow Him through heaven and hell, The earth, the sea, and the air...
Página 183 - for I of late have been Much cheered with thoughts of Christ, the living bread.
Página 263 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Página 175 - In other words, that it made the soul like a field or garden of God, with all manner of pleasant flowers: all pleasant, delightful, and undisturbed; enjoying a sweet calm, and the gently vivifying beams of the sun. The soul of a true christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year; low and humble on the ground, opening its...
Página 86 - I say, the acknowledgment of God in Christ Accepted by thy reason, solves for thee All questions in the earth and out of it, And has so far advanced thee to be wise.
Página 255 - I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a chef-d'oeuvre for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven...