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... human and divine ; marshalling all history , har- monizing all experiment , probing the depths of your consciousness , and revealing visions of glory and of terror to the imagination ; but pouring withal such floods of light upon the ...
... human and divine ; marshalling all history , har- monizing all experiment , probing the depths of your consciousness , and revealing visions of glory and of terror to the imagination ; but pouring withal such floods of light upon the ...
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... human nose . A rogue is a roundabout fool ; a fool in circumbendibus . Omne ignotum pro magnifico . A dunghill at a distance sometimes smells like musk , and a dead dog like elder- flowers . Plagiarists are always suspicious of being ...
... human nose . A rogue is a roundabout fool ; a fool in circumbendibus . Omne ignotum pro magnifico . A dunghill at a distance sometimes smells like musk , and a dead dog like elder- flowers . Plagiarists are always suspicious of being ...
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... human nature and bodily suffering , of Jesus Christ - that He was God and Man . The notion that the effusion of blood and water from the Saviour's side was intended to prove the real death of the sufferer originated , I believe , with ...
... human nature and bodily suffering , of Jesus Christ - that He was God and Man . The notion that the effusion of blood and water from the Saviour's side was intended to prove the real death of the sufferer originated , I believe , with ...
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... human nature fell before it . 6 1 ' Last Thursday my uncle , S. T. C. , dined with us , and several men came to meet him . I have heard him more brilliant , but he was very fine , and delighted every one very much . It is impossible to ...
... human nature fell before it . 6 1 ' Last Thursday my uncle , S. T. C. , dined with us , and several men came to meet him . I have heard him more brilliant , but he was very fine , and delighted every one very much . It is impossible to ...
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... humanity , thus brought home and pressed , as it were , to the very bosom of hourly experience ; it supposes , I say , a heartfelt rever- ence for worth , not the less deep because divested of its solemnity by habit , by familiarity ...
... humanity , thus brought home and pressed , as it were , to the very bosom of hourly experience ; it supposes , I say , a heartfelt rever- ence for worth , not the less deep because divested of its solemnity by habit , by familiarity ...
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Page 310 - Etrurian shades High overarched embower; or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed Hath vexed the Red Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry. While with perfidious hatred they pursued The sojourners of Goshen, who beheld From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot-wheels. So thick bestrown. Abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood, Under amazement of their hideous change. He called so loud that all the hollow deep Of hell resounded...
Page 309 - By four Cherubic shapes. Four faces each Had wondrous; as with stars, their bodies all And wings were set with eyes ; with eyes the wheels Of beryl, and careering fires between...
Page 468 - Licence they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Page 449 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Page 262 - Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
Page 189 - IV. Forgive me, Freedom ! O forgive those dreams ! I hear thy voice, I hear thy loud lament, From bleak Helvetia's icy cavern sent — I hear thy groans upon her blood-stained streams ! Heroes, that for your peaceful country perished, And ye that, fleeing, spot your mountain-snows With bleeding wounds ; forgive me, that I cherished...
Page 331 - He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...
Page 195 - Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play...
Page 293 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers. Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Page 220 - This beauty, in the blossom of my youth, When my first fire knew no adulterate incense, Nor I no way to flatter, but my fondness, In all the bravery my friends could...