Literary Characteristics and Achievements of the BiblePoe & Hitchcock, 1863 - 368 páginas |
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... Italy faintly reflected — which failed to illustrate Provi- dence , or illumine the tomb , or reveal to mankind the divinely beautiful and good . It was not given even to a Homer to draw down from Parnassus the beam which was to ...
... Italy faintly reflected — which failed to illustrate Provi- dence , or illumine the tomb , or reveal to mankind the divinely beautiful and good . It was not given even to a Homer to draw down from Parnassus the beam which was to ...
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... Italy , and it is asked , What has given its so solemn tone to the muse of Dante , and kindled his poetry with so prophetic a fervor ? the answer plainly is , that it could only be his high apprecia- tion of the writers of the Old ...
... Italy , and it is asked , What has given its so solemn tone to the muse of Dante , and kindled his poetry with so prophetic a fervor ? the answer plainly is , that it could only be his high apprecia- tion of the writers of the Old ...
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... Italy , and it is asked , What has given its so solemn tone to the muse of Dante , and kindled his poetry with so prophetic a fervor ? the answer plainly is , that it could only be his high apprecia- tion of the writers of the Old ...
... Italy , and it is asked , What has given its so solemn tone to the muse of Dante , and kindled his poetry with so prophetic a fervor ? the answer plainly is , that it could only be his high apprecia- tion of the writers of the Old ...
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... Italy , and even within the walls of the capital . Of the causes which led to this decline our subject would not have required us to speak , were it not that certain historians have included among them the introduction into Italy of the ...
... Italy , and even within the walls of the capital . Of the causes which led to this decline our subject would not have required us to speak , were it not that certain historians have included among them the introduction into Italy of the ...
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... Italy and Palestine , than were the two religions , paganism and Christianity . Nei- ther could meet , the literatures nor the religions , without in the first instance conflicting . Then it is well known that to adorn and uphold ...
... Italy and Palestine , than were the two religions , paganism and Christianity . Nei- ther could meet , the literatures nor the religions , without in the first instance conflicting . Then it is well known that to adorn and uphold ...
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Página 137 - And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests and we shall reign on the earth.
Página 69 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Página 93 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Página 68 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it ? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes...
Página 80 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Página 79 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Página 75 - Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, and caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley ; and, lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord God, thou knowest.
Página 84 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and all deeps ; Fire and hail ; snow and vapor ; stormy wind fulfilling His word ; Mountains and all hills ; fruitful trees and all cedars ; Beasts and all cattle ; creeping things and flying fowl ; HARVEST SERVICE OR THANKSGIVING.
Página 115 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Página 122 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings : For there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, The shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.