Browning and the Christian Faith: The Evidences of Christianity from Browning's Point of ViewMacmillan, 1896 - 233 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abt Vogler Agnosticism animal Asolando atoms beautiful believe Bernard de Mandeville body Book Browning's Caponsacchi Christ Christian Christmas Eve conception conscience Count Guido created creature death Divine doctrine doubt earth Easter Day Epilogue eternal evil existence F. W. Newman fact faculty faith Ferishtah's Fancies finite Francis Furini future Gerard de Lairesse God's Gospel heart heaven Hell heredity hope human Ibid idea ignorance immortality imperfect infinite intellect Ixion Jesus knowledge life's light lives man's means mind moral sense mystery nature never pain Paracelsus Parleyings with Bernard Parleyings with Francis perfect happiness philosophy poem poet poet's Pompilia Pope possesses prayer punishment Rabbi Ben Ezra reason recognize religion religious Ring Robert Browning Saul says Browning Setebos Sordello soul soul's spirit suffering Supreme teach tell temptation thee Theism theory things Thomas Aquinas Thou thought tion truth Walt Whitman whole worth Zeus
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 201 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Seite 44 - Tis the weakness in strength, that I cry for! my flesh, that I seek In the Godhead! I seek and I find it. O Saul, it shall be A Face like my face that receives thee; a Man like to me, Thou shalt love and be loved by, for ever: a Hand like this hand Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand!
Seite 203 - Except in such a suddenness of fate. I stood at Naples once, a night so dark I could have scarce conjectured there was earth Anywhere, sky or sea or world at all : But the night's black was burst through by a blaze — Thunder struck blow on blow, earth groaned and bore, Through her whole length of mountain visible : There lay the city thick and plain with spires, And, like a ghost disshrouded, white the sea. So may the truth be flashed out by one blow, And Guido see, one instant, and be saved.
Seite 171 - For the loving worm within its clod, Were diviner than a loveless god Amid his worlds, I will dare to say.
Seite 14 - Therefore to whom turn I but to thee, the ineffable Name? Builder and maker, thou, of houses not made with hands! What, have fear of change from thee who art ever the same? Doubt that thy power can fill the heart that thy power expands?
Seite 106 - 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 105 - What act proved all its thought had been? What will but felt the fleshly screen? We ride and I see her bosom heave. There's many a crown for who can reach. Ten lines, a statesman's life in each! The flag stuck on a heap of bones, A soldier's doing! what atones? They scratch his name on the Abbey-stones.
Seite 95 - Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestalled in triumph ? Pray " Lead us into no such temptations, Lord...
Seite 111 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Seite 169 - Do I find love so full in my nature, God's ultimate gift, That I doubt his own love can compete with it? Here, the parts shift? Here, the creature surpass the Creator, — the end, what Began?