The Bards of the BibleHarper, 1851 - 378 páginas |
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... hear , O earth ! the words of my mouth . " So much for this mighty prophetical dance or parallelism between earth and heaven . * * See , on this subject , Herder's " Spirit of Hebrew Poetry . " CHAPTER II . GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ...
... hear , O earth ! the words of my mouth . " So much for this mighty prophetical dance or parallelism between earth and heaven . * * See , on this subject , Herder's " Spirit of Hebrew Poetry . " CHAPTER II . GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ...
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... thinking and speaking in figure , and is astonished to hear elaboration im- puted to passages which have been literally each the work of an hour . But all modern styles are more or less CHAPTER II GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HEBREW POETRY,
... thinking and speaking in figure , and is astonished to hear elaboration im- puted to passages which have been literally each the work of an hour . But all modern styles are more or less CHAPTER II GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HEBREW POETRY,
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... Hear the words of Jeremiah- " O the Hope of Israel , the Savior thereof in time of trouble , why shouldst thou be as a stranger in the land , and as a wayfaring man , that turneth aside to tarry for a night ? Why shouldst thou be as a ...
... Hear the words of Jeremiah- " O the Hope of Israel , the Savior thereof in time of trouble , why shouldst thou be as a stranger in the land , and as a wayfaring man , that turneth aside to tarry for a night ? Why shouldst thou be as a ...
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... hear them . We have still a Thomas Carlyle , who , from the study , where he might have trained himself for a great artist , has come forth , and , standing by the wayside , has uttered the old laws of justice and of retribution , with ...
... hear them . We have still a Thomas Carlyle , who , from the study , where he might have trained himself for a great artist , has come forth , and , standing by the wayside , has uttered the old laws of justice and of retribution , with ...
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... hear , and handle them too . It is no shadow of the object he sets before you , but the object itself , in its length , breadth , height , and thickness . In this point , he is the Land- seer of ancient poetry , and something more ...
... hear , and handle them too . It is no shadow of the object he sets before you , but the object itself , in its length , breadth , height , and thickness . In this point , he is the Land- seer of ancient poetry , and something more ...
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Página 263 - away." For a moment, he follows its brief history: " The sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways
Página 260 - Clouds," says the yet sterner Jude, "they are without water, carried about of winds ; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame ; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
Página 364 - enter again into the prepared and consecrated temple of earth and heaven. Let us listen to his voice, which he sends before him along his dread and glorious way, saying, " Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise. enter into the
Página 263 - In fine, although we pronounce James rather an orator than a poet, yet there do occur some touches of genuine poetic beauty, of which, in pursuing his swift rhetorical way, he is himself hardly conscious. " Let the rich," he says, " rejoice in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass, he
Página 113 - of nature and of man comes across his eye. " Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created, and thou renewest the face of the earth." But a greater truth still succeeds, and forms the climax of the
Página 243 - polished," as well as powerful. His words to king Agrippa —" I would to God, that not only thou, but also, all that hear me this day, were both almost and altogether such as I am, except these
Página 137 - of the Then ! How rapid are this prophet's transitions! how sudden his bursts ! how startling his questions! how the page appears to live and move as you read! " Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows ?" " Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah ?"
Página 33 - knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil; therefore, now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my. life from me,." . These expressions, amid many similar, suggest the memory of those sublimest of uninspired words— " Ye heavens, If ye do love old men, if your sweet
Página 140 - And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come and worship before me, saith the Lord.
Página 355 - of his darling coin. Equally striking is Elisha's, interview with him, on his return from his fraudful following of the Syrian. Gehazi shrinks under his eye, 'as he says—" Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee ?" Forth, thou base one, from my presence! But,
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