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... sent it . ” ISAIAH lv . 10 , 11 The most elegant and impressive of the similes of the poets are of this class . Thus Homer compares a young warrior killed by the spear of Ajax , and divested of his armor , to a flourishing poplar felled ...
... sent it . ” ISAIAH lv . 10 , 11 The most elegant and impressive of the similes of the poets are of this class . Thus Homer compares a young warrior killed by the spear of Ajax , and divested of his armor , to a flourishing poplar felled ...
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... sent for slumber ! Let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight , A portion of the tempest and of thee ! How the lit lake shines - a phosphoric sea ; And the big rain comes dancing to the earth ! And now again ' t is black ; and now ...
... sent for slumber ! Let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight , A portion of the tempest and of thee ! How the lit lake shines - a phosphoric sea ; And the big rain comes dancing to the earth ! And now again ' t is black ; and now ...
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... other . In an equivalent invitation given by Christ , labor , and the pressure of a heavy burden , are used to repre- sent the analogous feelings produced by a sense of guilt ; and an easy yoke and light burden , 62 THE HYPOCATASTASIS .
... other . In an equivalent invitation given by Christ , labor , and the pressure of a heavy burden , are used to repre- sent the analogous feelings produced by a sense of guilt ; and an easy yoke and light burden , 62 THE HYPOCATASTASIS .
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... sent . 4th . The acts and conditions ascribed to agents by the figure are such as are proper to their nature ; not like those used by the metaphor , that are proper only to agents or things of a different order . Thus , persons may ...
... sent . 4th . The acts and conditions ascribed to agents by the figure are such as are proper to their nature ; not like those used by the metaphor , that are proper only to agents or things of a different order . Thus , persons may ...
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... sent the means by which the fly and bee were to be prompted to repair from Egypt and Assyria to Palestine . Using the hand in meting , measuring , and other acts , is employed in one of the sublimest passages of Isaiah , to indicate ...
... sent the means by which the fly and bee were to be prompted to repair from Egypt and Assyria to Palestine . Using the hand in meting , measuring , and other acts , is employed in one of the sublimest passages of Isaiah , to indicate ...
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addressed adjective affirmation agents or objects allegory Amphibrach amphimacer analogous acts anapests apostrophe ascribed Assyria beauty Behold blank verse cæsura chap CHAPTER Christ clouds comparison David deliverance denominated denote descendants destruction earth Edom elliptical metaphor employed to represent enemies exerted exhibited expression eyes feet flower following passage foreshow Gentiles give glory God's hand hath heaven hymn Hypocatastasis iambics indicate interposition Isaiah Israel Israelites Jehovah Jerusalem Judah Judea land language laws of figures light lines literal Lord manner Messiah metonymy modulation mountains nations nature night nouns o'er PARADISE LOST peculiar person personification prediction proper prophecy prophet Prosopopoeia Psalm Psalmist repre resemblance rock Saul Scriptures sense SHAKSPEARE shield signify simile smile song Spirit spondee subjects substituted sweet syllable symbols synecdoche thee theophany things thou throne tion trees trochee unto verbs verse vine vineyard visible wind word Zion
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Page 57 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 135 - O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
Page 280 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Page 139 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 118 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt ; thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Page 99 - Eternal coeternal beam, May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 39 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below, LXIII.
Page 100 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests: in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm. Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime; The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible: even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 16 - The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. "Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. "They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; 15 to shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Page 46 - ... evanescence ! Posthumous man, who quitt'st thy narrow bed, And standest undecayed within our presence, Thou wilt hear nothing till the Judgment morning, When the great Trump shall thrill thee with its warning! Why should this worthless tegument endure, If its undying guest be lost for ever ? O let us keep the soul embalmed and pure In living virtue ; that, when both must sever.