The Great Schoolmen of the Middle Ages: An Account of Their Lives, and the Services They Rendered to the Church and the WorldHodder and Stoughton, 1881 - 361 páginas |
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Página 16 - To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. "An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. "He dried his wings: like gauze they grew: Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew.
Página 116 - Yet he passed away, and lo, he was not; Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Página 284 - We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but possibly shall never be able to know, whether any mere material being thinks, or no...
Página 2 - OLD things need not be therefore true,' O brother men, nor yet the new ; Ah ! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again ! The souls of now two thousand years Have laid up here their toils and fears, And all the earnings of their pain, — Ah, yet consider it again...
Página 288 - And deem not profitless those fleeting moods Of shadowy exultation : not for this, That they are kindred to our purer mind And intellectual life ; but that the soul, Remembering how she felt, but what she felt Remembering not...
Página 34 - WHAT we, when face to face we see The Father of our souls, shall be, John tells us, doth not yet appear ; Ah ! did he tell what we are here ! A mind for thoughts to pass into, A heart for loves to travel through, Five senses to detect things near, Is this the whole that we are here ? Rules baffle instincts — instincts rules, Wise men are bad — and good are fools, Facts evil — wishes vain appear, We cannot go, why are we here ? O may we for assurance...
Página 138 - Thro' my garden-bower, And muttering discontent Cursed me and my flower. Then it grew so tall It wore a crown of light, But thieves from o'er the wall Stole the seed by night. Sow'd it far and wide By every town and tower, Till all the people cried 'Splendid is the flower.
Página 78 - For right is right, since God is God ; And right the day must win ; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin ! FREDERIC WILLIAM FABER.
Página 284 - ... it being, in respect of our notions, not much more remote from our comprehension to conceive that God can, if He pleases, superadd to matter a faculty of thinking...
Página 34 - In Being's floods, in Action's storm, I walk and work, above, beneath, Work and weave in endless motion ! Birth and Death, An infinite ocean ; A seizing and giving The fire of Living : 'Tis thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the Garment thou seest Him by.