Lives of Sacred Poets, Τόμος 2 |
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Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 234 - The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee.
Σελίδα 133 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Σελίδα 132 - GIVE me the wings of faith, to rise Within the vail, and see The saints above — how great their joys, How bright their glories be ! 2 Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears ; They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears.
Σελίδα 108 - Direct, control, suggest this day All I design, or do, or say, That all my powers, with all their might, In Thy sole glory may unite ! Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!
Σελίδα 22 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Σελίδα 20 - I was confirmed in this opinion that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Σελίδα 240 - E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die.
Σελίδα 234 - There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God...
Σελίδα 250 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropped upon his Bible was sincere : Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Σελίδα 310 - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half...
Πληροφορίες βιβλιογραφίας
| Τίτλος | Lives of Sacred Poets, Τόμος 2 Lives of Sacred Poets, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee |
| Συγγραφέας | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott |
| Συνεισφέρων | Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee |
| Εκδότης | J.W. Parker, 1838 |
| Πρωτότυπο από | το Πανεπιστήμιο της Καλιφόρνια |
| Ψηφιοποιήθηκε στις | 10 Δεκ. 2007 |
| Μέγεθος | 363 σελίδες |
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