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... higher and lower ranks . He has free access to the mansion of the noble , and welcome in the cottage of the labourer . And if I understand aright the mission of a minister of the Church of England , his peculiar and sacred call is , to ...
... higher and lower ranks . He has free access to the mansion of the noble , and welcome in the cottage of the labourer . And if I understand aright the mission of a minister of the Church of England , his peculiar and sacred call is , to ...
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... higher classes may turn his attention to them , if he likes ; nothing forces him to do so . It is to him a matter of amusement , a speculation - a theoretical curiosity -not necessarily anything more . The difference of a penny in the ...
... higher classes may turn his attention to them , if he likes ; nothing forces him to do so . It is to him a matter of amusement , a speculation - a theoretical curiosity -not necessarily anything more . The difference of a penny in the ...
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... higher classes have a right to their clubs , and the middle classes to their Athenæums . Let no cowardly suspicion deter from generous sympathy . Give them their rights . Let the future take care of itself . The other suggestion is this ...
... higher classes have a right to their clubs , and the middle classes to their Athenæums . Let no cowardly suspicion deter from generous sympathy . Give them their rights . Let the future take care of itself . The other suggestion is this ...
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... higher do the work God has given them to do , of elevating those below , you have a country working out her own national life securely ; if , on the other hand , those below either tear down wantonly , or by the selfishness and ...
... higher do the work God has given them to do , of elevating those below , you have a country working out her own national life securely ; if , on the other hand , those below either tear down wantonly , or by the selfishness and ...
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... higher classes of this country have altogether understood the high destinies which they are called on to fulfil . I say not that they all , or any of them , do what they might . To say that would be to say what has been true of no ...
... higher classes of this country have altogether understood the high destinies which they are called on to fulfil . I say not that they all , or any of them , do what they might . To say that would be to say what has been true of no ...
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Athenæum beauty become believe belongs Benvenuto Cellini Bishop of Rome bishops Brighton Byron called character Christ Christian Church of England Church of Rome classes consecrated Cyprian death difference Divine doctrine duty egoism English eternal evil existence expression feeling felt give hand heart heaven High Churchism higher honour human imagination infidelity influence Institution intellectual Irenæus labour language lecture liberty living look Lord Byron man's manly mean Milton mind moral Nabal nation nature never noble Pantheism pass passage passion perfect conception persons Picts poem poet poetical Poetry political Pope present principles question rank reason recognised respect Robertson saw thro seems selfishness sense Sermons Shakspere society sonnet soul speak spirit symbols sympathy taste tell Tennyson things thou thought tion Tractarian true truth understand voice wealth whole words Wordsworth
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Page 176 - Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 110 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 5 - And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Page 164 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired.
Page 144 - Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 156 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Page 279 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Page 7 - As come it will for a' that — That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that ; For a' that, and a' that, It's coming yet for a' that, That man to man, the world o'er, Shall brothers be for a
Page 114 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Page 125 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond "Which keeps me pale...