Essays on Some of the Modern Guides of English Thought in Matters of FaithMacmillan, 1887 - 333 стор. |
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Сторінка 123 - free Spirit. ... 0 Lord, open thou my lips ; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice, else would I give it; thou delightest not in burnt-offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, 0 God, thou wilt not despise.
Сторінка 75 - So long Thy power hath blest me, sure it still Will lead me on, O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till The night is gone, And in the morn those angel faces smile, Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
Сторінка 123 - spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, 0 God, thou wilt not despise." Take the divine illusion, as Mr. Arnold calls it, out of this, and how much of " the emotion" requisite for religion would remain
Сторінка 118 - seen the King, the Lord of Hosts." Take St. Paul: " I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Сторінка 122 - the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion to the fact, and now the fact is failing it. But for poetry the idea is everything ; the rest is a world of illusion—of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea ; the idea is the fact.
Сторінка 122 - its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has materialised itself in the
Сторінка 84 - as dust and ashes, compared with the value of one single soul. She holds that unless she can in her own way do good to souls, it is no use her doing anything; she holds that it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for the many millions
Сторінка 112 - The Two Voices"— " 'Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant; Oh life, not death, for which we pant: More life, and fuller, that I want." To the same effect Arnold quotes M. de Senancour :
Сторінка 73 - Sermons, vol. ip 311. And then he utters that celebrated sentence— " I will not shrink from uttering my firm conviction that it would be a gain to this country were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, more gloomy, more fierce in its religion than at present it shows itself to be.
Сторінка 133 - disdain; She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again. '' So well she mused, a morning broke Across her spirit gray ; A conquering, new-born joy awoke, And fill'd her life with day. " ' Poor world,' she cried, 'so deep accurst, That runn'st from pole to pole To seek a draught to slake thy thirst— Go, seek it in thy soul!'