Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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Page 106
... noble depths , and enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts . These are not stark and stif- fened persons , but the newborn poetry of God , -poetry with- out stop , -hymn , ode , and epic , poetry still flowing , and not yet caked in dead ...
... noble depths , and enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts . These are not stark and stif- fened persons , but the newborn poetry of God , -poetry with- out stop , -hymn , ode , and epic , poetry still flowing , and not yet caked in dead ...
Page 114
... noble and beautiful souls by in- truding on them ? Why insist on rash personal relations with your friend ? Why go to his house , or know his mother and brother and sisters ? Why be visited by him at your own ? Are these things material ...
... noble and beautiful souls by in- truding on them ? Why insist on rash personal relations with your friend ? Why go to his house , or know his mother and brother and sisters ? Why be visited by him at your own ? Are these things material ...
Page 164
... noble , and great they are by the liberality of our speech , but truth is sad . O blessed Spirit , whom I forsake for these , they are not thee ! Every personal con- sideration that we allow costs us heavenly state . We sell the thrones ...
... noble , and great they are by the liberality of our speech , but truth is sad . O blessed Spirit , whom I forsake for these , they are not thee ! Every personal con- sideration that we allow costs us heavenly state . We sell the thrones ...
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