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... ladder of Jacob , emblem of divine contemplation . St. Peter Damian then proceeds ( as indeed he had done in life ) to denounce the backslidings of the clergy into luxury , sloth 172 GREAT BOOKS.
... ladder of Jacob , emblem of divine contemplation . St. Peter Damian then proceeds ( as indeed he had done in life ) to denounce the backslidings of the clergy into luxury , sloth 172 GREAT BOOKS.
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... ladder of Jacob " to ascend which no one now parts his feet on earth . " Then he complains that his famous Rule of St. Benedict has now on earth become mere waste - paper , because " the walls that used to be an abbey are now dens of ...
... ladder of Jacob " to ascend which no one now parts his feet on earth . " Then he complains that his famous Rule of St. Benedict has now on earth become mere waste - paper , because " the walls that used to be an abbey are now dens of ...
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Great Books: Bunyan, Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, The Imitation Etc ... Frederic William Farrar Visualização integral - 1898 |
Great Books: Bunyan, Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, The Imitation Etc ... Frederic William Farrar Visualização de excertos - 1898 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
amid angels attain awful Beatrice beautiful blessed blood bright Bunyan Cassio Christ Christian Church conscience crown Dante Dante's dark deadly Dean Church death delight Divine Comedy earth earthly eternal evil eyes faith father feel fire flame flowers gleam glory grace happiness hath heart heaven hell holy hope human Iago immortal Inferno innocence Jean Gerson John Bunyan John Milton King King Lear ladder of Jacob lessons light literature live look Lord Macbeth mean Milton mind moral nature ness never noble Othello Paradise Paradise Lost pass passage passion peace Phlegethon Pilgrim's Progress plays poem poet Pope prayer punishment pure Purgatory readers repentance saints says scene selfish Shakespeare shalt shame singing sins song soul speak spirits sweet teach tells terrace thee things Thomas à Kempis thou thought Trajan truth utter Virgil virtue voice wisdom words writer youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 153 - Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend t For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Página 63 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life...
Página 29 - Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Página 195 - The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Página 26 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Página 100 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Página 195 - Enow of such as, for their bellies' sake, Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold ! Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers...
Página 184 - MILTON, thou shouldst 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.
Página 99 - I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. [Exit. Knocking within. Macb. Whence is that knocking ? How is't with me, when every noise appals me ? What hands are here ? Ha ! they pluck out mine eyes ! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand ? No ; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnardine,* Making the green — one red.
Página 199 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
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The Battleground of the Curriculum: Liberal Education and American Experience W. B. Carnochan Pré-visualização limitada - 1993 |
The Battleground of the Curriculum: Liberal Education and American Experience Pré-visualização limitada - 1994 |