No More Learning
I continued a
time in these contemplations,
deploring her present situation, and hardly daring to flatter myself
with better hopes for the future.
Pater speaks
of the
light he turned upon dim places, and truly no
corner of life escaped the gleam of his lantern.
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T echnique and the Development of W orld Images (New York: Wiley, 1973), pp.
Morality
contradicts itself.
ne'er saIl fail', they say, 'til heathersmoke and
Eire's ile sail pall.
But the lunch
bad.
It was a paper bag
with gold
braid, and contained such an assortment of sweets as lads bought
for their lasses on the Muckle Friday.
The moderate
party, after being temporarily
beneath the domination of
the left wing, found in the declaration a long-sought battle-cry.
It is not that we do not have our
own walking, but we do not yet know and have not yet
our own
walking.
ten weich und trunken,
Resedenduft, der
umspu?
thou wert then in manhood's prime:
But age crept on: one God would not suffice
For senile puerility; thou framedst
A tale to suit thy dotage, and to glut _125
Thy misery-thirsting soul, that the mad fiend
Thy wickedness had pictured might afford
A plea for sating the unnatural thirst
For murder, rapine, violence, and crime,
That still consumed thy being, even when _130
Thou heardst the step of Fate;--that flames might light
Thy funeral scene, and the shrill horrent shrieks
Of parents dying on the pile that burned
To light their children to thy paths, the roar
Of the encircling flames, the
cries _135
Of thine apostles, loud commingling there,
Might sate thine hungry ear
Even on the bed of death!
For we must note the temperature of
which Luke setteth down here, that we can have or obtain nothing by the hearing of the word alone, without the grace of the Spirit; and that the Spirit is given us, not that he may bring contempt of the word, but rather that he may dip [instill] into our minds, and write in our hearts the faith thereof.
Nahant
Bowed as an elm under the weight of its beauty,
So earth is bowed, under her weight of splendor,
Molten sea,
of leaves and the burnished
Bronze of sea-grasses.
”
« They are very amusing,” said the marchioness, sharing the
hilarity of her husband, and looking at Rose-Pompon through
her glass; then she resumed in about a minute,
herself
to Adrienne, “I am quite certain of one thing.
When Major C d, who commanded the first
of Guards, the Dragoons, who were as his Life-Guard, when at the Head of the Troop follow ing Jeffreys from Somersetshire to Wiltshire, in Order for Lon don, after the Assizes, the Major asked Jeffreys, If there would be any favour shewn to one Mr.
) And here he putteth them in mind of those things which are written in John 14:15, 16,
"I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may
with
you; I say the Spirit of truth," etc.
Some of the poems, and those the
written,
before Donne had actually taken Orders, are not much more than
exercises in these theological subtleties, poems such as that _On
the Annunciation and Passion falling in the same year_ (1608), _The
Litany_ (1610), _Good-Friday_ (1613), and _The Cross_ (_c.
The man who is faithless to Truth in
dangers,
may yet love her much; and Truth forgives him his infidelity
for the sake of his love.
What philosophy deals with is always
concrete and strictly present" (EL, 149-150).
EARLY GREEK
AND OTHER
ESSAYS.
And the
boasted of all these promises which were made to them, feeling sure that the supremacy of the Romans would be put an end to.
THE AXE
This poem was
written to be inscribed upon a votive copy of the ancient axe with which tradition said Epeius made the Wooden Horse and which was preserved in the temple of Athena.
The
tumult of war, and the enthusiasm which
the soul at
the sight of danger, might have prevented his sighs from pier-
cing my heart, while his death would have been useful to his
country and damaging to the enemy.
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But some had
to squeal.
He
lacks the German charm and grace of a Beethoven,
a Mozart, a Weber; he also lacks the flowing,
cheerful fire (Allegro con brio) of
and
Weber.
, great
of the
second Sir Walter.
Even the elephants, when the
surprise produced by their first appearance was over, could cause
no disorder in the steady yet flexible
of Rome.
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
