Every Good Gift from Above: Being a Sermon Preached in the Parish Church of Stratford-upon-Avon on Sunday, April 24, 1864, at the Celebration of the Tercentenary of Shakespeare's BirthMacmillan and Company, 1864 - 20 σελίδες |
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EVERY GOOD GIFT FROM ABOVE Richard Chenevix 1807-1886 Trench Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2016 |
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Σελίδα 18 - Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; And he that might the vantage best have took, Pound out the remedy : How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Σελίδα 18 - Why would'st thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in: What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us: Go thy ways to a nunnery.
Σελίδα 19 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not...
Σελίδα 20 - First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Σελίδα 6 - One fitness, indeed, I possess, namely, that I am not wholly unaware of the difficulties of my undertaking. To this I shall address myself now ; only first on one or two points challenging your considerate forbearance. Thus, if I preach about Shakespeare, and that method of treatment sound somewhat novel and unusual in your ears, you will still remember that this is the very thing which I am set to do ; which thus in my office as a minister of Christ, and in his holy house, I could alone consent...
Σελίδα 13 - This son, his whole being corroded, poisoned, turned to gall and bitterness, by the ever present consciousness of the cleaving stain of his birth, is made the instrument to undo him, or rather to bring him through bitterest agonies, through the wreck and ruin of his whole worldly felicity, to a final repentance. Indeed for once Shakespeare himself points the moral in those words, so often quoted, but not oftener than they deserve: " The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to...
Σελίδα 16 - Shakspearo ; in which he had never lived or sung. What a crown would be stricken from her brow ! how would she come down from the pre-eminence of her place as nursing mother of the foremost poet whom the world has seen, whom, we are almost bold to prophesy, it ever will see ! Think how much poorer intellectually, yea, and morally, every one of us would be ; what would have to be withdrawn from circulation, of wisest sayings, of profoundest maxims of life-wisdom, which have now been absorbed into...
Σελίδα 8 - With the breath of strong and purifying emotions it should stir to a healthy activity the waters of a nation's life, which would else have stagnated and putrefied and corrupted. Having such offices, being capable of such effects as these, of what vast concern it is that it should deal with the loftiest problems which man's existence presents — solve them, so far as they are capable of solution here, point to a solution behind the veil where this only is possible ; that, whatever it handles, things...
Σελίδα 12 - ... makes no just distribution of good or evil.'' It is a shallow view of art, as of life, which could alone have given birth to this accusation. It is true that the moral intention of Shakspeare's poetry does not lie on the surface, is not obtruded ; it may and will often escape the careless reader. But it is there, lying deep...
Σελίδα 19 - Who shall persuade us that he abode outside of that holy temple of our faith, whereof he has uttered such glorious things, admiring its beauty, but not himself entering to worship there ? One so real, so truthful, as all which we learn about Shakespeare declares him to have been, assuredly fell in with no idle form of words, when in that last testament which he dictated so shortly before his death, he first of all, and before all, commended his soul to God his Creator ; and this (I quote his express...