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... fire , around whose lips in infancy Cluster'd in honied swarms the Attic bee , 1 Shun the debate : rise not to speak among Thy co - mates spurn the incense of the young : Spin not from hollow base sophistic plea , Like to the worm ...
... fire , around whose lips in infancy Cluster'd in honied swarms the Attic bee , 1 Shun the debate : rise not to speak among Thy co - mates spurn the incense of the young : Spin not from hollow base sophistic plea , Like to the worm ...
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... fire wasteth his flesh , and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace ; the noise of the hammer and the anvil is ever in his ears , and his eyes look still upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh ; he setteth his mind to finish his ...
... fire wasteth his flesh , and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace ; the noise of the hammer and the anvil is ever in his ears , and his eyes look still upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh ; he setteth his mind to finish his ...
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... fire on the right hand , and on the left a deep water : And one only path between them both , even between the fire and the water , so small that there could but one man go there at once . If this city now were given unto a man for an ...
... fire on the right hand , and on the left a deep water : And one only path between them both , even between the fire and the water , so small that there could but one man go there at once . If this city now were given unto a man for an ...
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... fire , and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity . " -- ECCLESIASTES chap . ii . v . 4 . “ καί κως βούλομαι καὶ αὐτὸς καὶ τῶν ἂν κήδωμαι τὸ μέν τι εὐτυχέειν τῶν πρηγμάτων , τὸ δὲ προσπταίειν · καὶ οὕτω διαφέρειν τὸν αἰῶνα ἐναλλὰξ ...
... fire , and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity . " -- ECCLESIASTES chap . ii . v . 4 . “ καί κως βούλομαι καὶ αὐτὸς καὶ τῶν ἂν κήδωμαι τὸ μέν τι εὐτυχέειν τῶν πρηγμάτων , τὸ δὲ προσπταίειν · καὶ οὕτω διαφέρειν τὸν αἰῶνα ἐναλλὰξ ...
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... fires , Are scaffoldings whereon my soul climbs up To an eternal habitation . " - Virgin Martyr . " The great in affliction bear a countenance more princely than they are wont , for it is the temper of the highest hearts , like the palm ...
... fires , Are scaffoldings whereon my soul climbs up To an eternal habitation . " - Virgin Martyr . " The great in affliction bear a countenance more princely than they are wont , for it is the temper of the highest hearts , like the palm ...
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Page 211 - So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
Page 53 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on...
Page 185 - To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, • His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him.
Page 152 - Get thee hence, Satan : for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Page 183 - I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Page 76 - The sea of Fortune doth not ever flow ; She draws her favours to the lowest ebb : Her tides have equal times to come and go ; Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest web : No joy so great but runneth to an end, No hap so hard but may in fine amend.
Page 38 - And the Publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other : for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased : and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Page 69 - There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.