Essays, Addresses and Lyrical Translations

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Macmillan, 1893 - 340 pagine
 

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Pagina 34 - Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove ; " Thine are these orbs of light and shade ; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death ; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.
Pagina 33 - If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice ' believe no more' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep ; " A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answered ' I have felt.'
Pagina 53 - seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. . . . But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love." THE GREATEST OF THESE is LOVE,
Pagina 293 - He never turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake,
Pagina 169 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn ; Morning's at seven ; The hill-side's dew-pearled ; The lark's on the whig ; The snail's on the thorn ; God's in His heaven— All's right with
Pagina 191 - I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Pagina 20 - words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. " But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
Pagina 13 - As sometimes in a dead man's face, To those that watch it more and more, A likeness, hardly seen before, Comes out—to some one of his race: " So, dearest, now thy brows are cold, I see thee what thou art, and know Thy likeness to the wise below, Thy kindred with the great of old.
Pagina 240 - Some, indeed, preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will. . . . What then ? only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
Pagina 221 - Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

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