The Christian Examiner, Volume 73Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1862 - Liberalism (Religion) |
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... heart . Once grasped , its occult power has no limit of charm and promise . Nature and art greet us with unceasing revelation . In them we discover the incarna- tion of our vague longings and undefined consciousness of things not seen ...
... heart . Once grasped , its occult power has no limit of charm and promise . Nature and art greet us with unceasing revelation . In them we discover the incarna- tion of our vague longings and undefined consciousness of things not seen ...
Page 68
... heart , goes with its pencil . Mat- ter - of - fact is its motto , poetry its aversion . Chilling , pragmat- ical , and dogmatic in spirit , it arrests attention but finally to disappoint . To it a tree is simply certain solid ...
... heart , goes with its pencil . Mat- ter - of - fact is its motto , poetry its aversion . Chilling , pragmat- ical , and dogmatic in spirit , it arrests attention but finally to disappoint . To it a tree is simply certain solid ...
Page 73
... heart a republican . He loved the people's liberty and hated oppression . Yet what single work records these sentiments ? The gentle Correggio filled church , con- vent , and cathedral dome with wondrous riches of graceful forms . But ...
... heart a republican . He loved the people's liberty and hated oppression . Yet what single work records these sentiments ? The gentle Correggio filled church , con- vent , and cathedral dome with wondrous riches of graceful forms . But ...
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... hearts , and we have had occasion to know that they are quite as potent an influence for good as are the spoken appeals of Puritan preachers . Italian artists of the best periods , with but few exceptions , sprang from the people , were ...
... hearts , and we have had occasion to know that they are quite as potent an influence for good as are the spoken appeals of Puritan preachers . Italian artists of the best periods , with but few exceptions , sprang from the people , were ...
Page 81
... Heart and mind should overflow towards them , with the desire of Christ's little children to know about the kingdom of heaven . The conceit of pseudo- amateurship spoils much pleasure from its want of faith . The fear of being deceived ...
... Heart and mind should overflow towards them , with the desire of Christ's little children to know about the kingdom of heaven . The conceit of pseudo- amateurship spoils much pleasure from its want of faith . The fear of being deceived ...
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Page 428 - The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing ; My bonds in thee are all determinate. For how do I hold thee but by thy granting ? And for that riches where is my deserving? The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting, And so my patent back again is swerving. Thyself thou...
Page 212 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Page 221 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii : Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Page 422 - A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion; A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted With shifting change, as is false women's fashion; An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth; A man in hue, all 'hues' in his controlling, Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
Page 268 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it...
Page 431 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding .pale streams with heavenly alchemy...
Page 424 - Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate: For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Page 220 - When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, To lock such rascal counters from his friends, Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts ; Dash him to pieces ! . Cas.
Page 221 - And, sure, he is an honorable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
Page 222 - This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors