The Open Fire: And Other EssaysAbingdon Press, 1922 - 346 páginas |
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... religious temper and warm evangelical faith into her little boy , and in years when she was no more on earth her strong son said with grateful emotion , " She was a divine woman . " Eugene Field , alone by the fire , had the silence in ...
... religious temper and warm evangelical faith into her little boy , and in years when she was no more on earth her strong son said with grateful emotion , " She was a divine woman . " Eugene Field , alone by the fire , had the silence in ...
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... religious forces of his time ; and no liberally educated person can afford to be unacquainted with the products of his genius . We submit a few reasons which make it profitable to cultivate acquaintance with this poet . I. If anybody ...
... religious forces of his time ; and no liberally educated person can afford to be unacquainted with the products of his genius . We submit a few reasons which make it profitable to cultivate acquaintance with this poet . I. If anybody ...
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... religion . VIII . Browning ennobles life by spiritualizing all its relationships . This appears supremely in the elevated and dignified manner in which he deals with the most powerful of human passions ; the passion which may lift man ...
... religion . VIII . Browning ennobles life by spiritualizing all its relationships . This appears supremely in the elevated and dignified manner in which he deals with the most powerful of human passions ; the passion which may lift man ...
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... religion was , he used to say : " Read In Memoriam ' ; I have written it there . " In " In Memoriam " are dubious shadows , where spiritual realities seem more ghostly than substantial ; and the serious charge is made against it , that ...
... religion was , he used to say : " Read In Memoriam ' ; I have written it there . " In " In Memoriam " are dubious shadows , where spiritual realities seem more ghostly than substantial ; and the serious charge is made against it , that ...
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... so highly gifted a man of genius holding firmly to the great truths of revealed religion and espe- cially to a belief in immortality . Browning , in a quick reply to the dying woman , assured her that VALUES IN ROBERT BROWNING 89.
... so highly gifted a man of genius holding firmly to the great truths of revealed religion and espe- cially to a belief in immortality . Browning , in a quick reply to the dying woman , assured her that VALUES IN ROBERT BROWNING 89.
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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...