Essays for the Day

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Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 - 227 Seiten
 

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Seite 82 - Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Seite 78 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Seite 101 - said he ; ' for I of late have been Much cheer'd with thoughts of Christ, the living bread.' O human soul ! as long as thou canst so Set up a mark of everlasting light, Above the howling senses...
Seite 92 - My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched ; That, after Last, returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched ; That what began best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.
Seite 210 - I do embrace it; for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer. There is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers...
Seite 203 - Glaucon, musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul...
Seite 212 - Divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an Hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole World, and creatures of GOD ; such a melody to the 112 PART II.
Seite 188 - And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star. Consider it well: each tone of our scale in itself is...
Seite 101 - TWAS August, and the fierce sun overhead Smote on the squalid streets of Bethnal Green, And the pale weaver, through his' windows seen In Spitalfields, look'd thrice dispirited. I met a preacher there I knew, and said : ' 111 and o'erwork'd, how fare you in this scene ? ' — ' Bravely ! ' said he ; ' for I of late have been Much cheer'd with thoughts of Christ, the living bread...

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