Puritan and Anglican: Studies in LiteratureK. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1900 - 341 páginas |
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... earth , which is but a City of Destruction or a Vanity Fair , and has its gaze intensely fixed upon another world , where the Saint will attain his Rest . II One of the first effects of the Protestant Reformation was a quickening of ...
... earth , which is but a City of Destruction or a Vanity Fair , and has its gaze intensely fixed upon another world , where the Saint will attain his Rest . II One of the first effects of the Protestant Reformation was a quickening of ...
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... earth , to widen the borders of light , and co - operate , as far as a human creature may , in driving back the edge of darkness . The Puritan had hitched his waggon to a star ; whether a star of Puritanism and English Literature 23.
... earth , to widen the borders of light , and co - operate , as far as a human creature may , in driving back the edge of darkness . The Puritan had hitched his waggon to a star ; whether a star of Puritanism and English Literature 23.
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... earth - grew in " dignity , since to it belonged the most awful , the most blessed issues . Our threescore years and ten - an atom in eternity acquired a grandeur as the moment of a solemn test and trial . Everything that seems to care ...
... earth - grew in " dignity , since to it belonged the most awful , the most blessed issues . Our threescore years and ten - an atom in eternity acquired a grandeur as the moment of a solemn test and trial . Everything that seems to care ...
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... earth , " he said , " is easy to me , but not so easy to be acquainted and conversant in heaven . ” 1 But it was impossible for Baxter to meditate for himself alone ; he was nothing if not a preacher , and he preached from what he ...
... earth , " he said , " is easy to me , but not so easy to be acquainted and conversant in heaven . ” 1 But it was impossible for Baxter to meditate for himself alone ; he was nothing if not a preacher , and he preached from what he ...
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... earth . Another Tom -the son of Edward Browne- " little Tommy , " came to cheer his grandfather's elder days . Like a good boy he chose Dame Dorothy aud his Aunt Betty for valentines ; he came home laden with presents from the fair ...
... earth . Another Tom -the son of Edward Browne- " little Tommy , " came to cheer his grandfather's elder days . Like a good boy he chose Dame Dorothy aud his Aunt Betty for valentines ; he came home laden with presents from the fair ...
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allegory angels Anglican Anglican communion authority Baxter beauty body Browne Browne's Bunyan Butler century charity Christ Christian Church Church of England City of Destruction communion conscience controversy death delight divine doctrine dream duties earth ecclesiastical England English error eternity evil Faerie Queene faith father fear feeling genius God's grace harmony heart heaven Herbert heroic Holy honour Hooker Hudibras human ideal imagination intellect Jeremy Taylor labour learning less liberty light literature living marriage matter ment Milton mind moral mystery nature never Nicholas Ferrar noble obedience Paradise Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passion peace perhaps piety Pilgrim's Progress poem poet poetry political prayer Puritan reason Reformation regard Religio Medici religion religious righteousness sacred saints says Scripture seemed sense sermon soul spirit Taylor temper theology things thought tion true truth Vanity Fair virtue wisdom words writings zeal
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Página 111 - I the unkind, ungrateful ? Ah my dear, I cannot look on thee. Love took my hand, and smiling did reply, Who made the eyes but I ? Truth, Lord, but I have marred them : let my shame Go where it doth deserve. And know you not, says Love, who bore the blame ? My dear, then I will serve.
Página 154 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Página 195 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Página 123 - But ah, my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And, when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return.
Página 124 - I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great Ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved; in which the world And all her train were hurled.
Página 107 - In another walk to Salisbury, he saw a poor man with a poorer horse, that was fallen under his load; they were both in distress, and needed present help, which Mr. Herbert perceiving, put off his canonical coat, and helped the poor man to unload, and after, to load his horse: The poor man blessed him for it, and he blessed the poor man ; and was so like the good Samaritan, that he gave him money to...
Página 195 - Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite. If there be aught of presage in the mind, This day will be remarkable in my life By some great act, or of my days the last.
Página 128 - Temple," and aptly,' for in the Temple of God, under His wing, he led his life in St. Mary's Church, near St. Peter's college ; there he lodged under Tertullian's roof of angels ; there he made his nest more gladly than David's swallow near the house of God : where, like a primitive saint, he offered more prayers in the night than others usually offer in the day.
Página 71 - My Lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college; yet, I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage : but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Página 298 - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.