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... affecting all its opi- nions and the whole of its philosophy , has in any manner altered what we have just laid down as the source , and , if I may so speak , the very essence of the chivalrous system . We have it not in our power ...
... affecting all its opi- nions and the whole of its philosophy , has in any manner altered what we have just laid down as the source , and , if I may so speak , the very essence of the chivalrous system . We have it not in our power ...
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... , that the heart may be moved with the most affecting im- pressions , that the taste and genius may be called f Tacitus , Hist . XI . 47 . in to excite interest , that some of the best 14 MORUS . as Otho said in the last hour of his life...
... , that the heart may be moved with the most affecting im- pressions , that the taste and genius may be called f Tacitus , Hist . XI . 47 . in to excite interest , that some of the best 14 MORUS . as Otho said in the last hour of his life...
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... affecting records , insensible to the sublime beauty and order , careless of the authority , erring from the faith and practice of the Church , and totally unacquainted with the nature , and origin , and end , of their own exalted state ...
... affecting records , insensible to the sublime beauty and order , careless of the authority , erring from the faith and practice of the Church , and totally unacquainted with the nature , and origin , and end , of their own exalted state ...
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... " sursum corda , " and is an- swered in the same beautiful flow of music , by that affecting sentence , " habemus ad Dominum , " it may - Can . Eccles . A. D. 1693 , n . 113 . not be difficult to conceive that , for the time MORUS . 59.
... " sursum corda , " and is an- swered in the same beautiful flow of music , by that affecting sentence , " habemus ad Dominum , " it may - Can . Eccles . A. D. 1693 , n . 113 . not be difficult to conceive that , for the time MORUS . 59.
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... affecting all his philosophy concerned with the judgment of mankind . " He saved others , himself he cannot save " ? And is human nature . changed ? Are the people , when left to nature , ( for y Warwick's Spare Minutes . 3 there is the ...
... affecting all his philosophy concerned with the judgment of mankind . " He saved others , himself he cannot save " ? And is human nature . changed ? Are the people , when left to nature , ( for y Warwick's Spare Minutes . 3 there is the ...
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Page 248 - Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
Page 223 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge., and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity...
Page 288 - There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen : The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Page 70 - tis the hour of prayer ! Ave Maria ! 'tis the hour of love ! Ave Maria ! may our spirits dare Look up to thine and to thy Son's above...
Page 175 - Ye brown o'erarching groves, That contemplation loves, Where willowy Camus lingers with delight ! Oft at the blush of dawn I trod your level lawn, Oft woo'd the gleam of Cynthia silver-bright In cloisters dim, far from the haunts of Folly, With Freedom by my side, and soft-eyed Melancholy.
Page 200 - Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Page 51 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced quire below In service high and anthems clear As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Page 36 - I am, I confess, naturally inclined to that which misguided zeal terms superstition : my common conversation I do acknowledge austere, my behaviour full of rigour, sometimes not without morosity; yet at my devotion I love to use the civility of my knee, my hat, and hand, with all those outward and sensible motions which may express or promote my invisible devotion.
Page 58 - Te gloriosus Apostolorum chorus, Te prophetarum laudabilis numerus, Te Martyrum candidatus laudat exercitus.
Page 300 - But hark ! the portals sound, and pacing forth With solemn steps and slow, High potentates, and dames of royal birth, And mitred fathers in long order go...