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... influence , does not prove that such an agency has ceased to be exercised : That the earliest poets were believed to be prophets also , is beyond all question : indeed , they were each called by the same distinctive name ; and that , in ...
... influence , does not prove that such an agency has ceased to be exercised : That the earliest poets were believed to be prophets also , is beyond all question : indeed , they were each called by the same distinctive name ; and that , in ...
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... influence of verse , which stirs The lowest deep , and binds in triple chains Of adamant both Pluto and the Shades . In verse the Delphic priestess , and the pale , Tremulous Sybil make the future known ; And he who sacrifices , on the ...
... influence of verse , which stirs The lowest deep , and binds in triple chains Of adamant both Pluto and the Shades . In verse the Delphic priestess , and the pale , Tremulous Sybil make the future known ; And he who sacrifices , on the ...
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... influence is , indeed , doubted by many ; while by some it is altogether discarded ( if not also ridiculed ) as being enthusiastic or visionary . By others it is said that the age of inspiration has gone by - to re- turn no more ; that ...
... influence is , indeed , doubted by many ; while by some it is altogether discarded ( if not also ridiculed ) as being enthusiastic or visionary . By others it is said that the age of inspiration has gone by - to re- turn no more ; that ...
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... influence of the Divine Spirit . Thus , they speak — and , as I believe , most properly and truly - of being restrained from the committal of vice , and of being inspired with a love of virtue , by the influence of this holy agent ...
... influence of the Divine Spirit . Thus , they speak — and , as I believe , most properly and truly - of being restrained from the committal of vice , and of being inspired with a love of virtue , by the influence of this holy agent ...
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... influence ? Such a one will - like Milton - invoke the aid of the Divine Spirit ; and , doing this , it is quite certain that he will obtain it . It is , however , possible that à poet may be a vicious person , and yet be un ...
... influence ? Such a one will - like Milton - invoke the aid of the Divine Spirit ; and , doing this , it is quite certain that he will obtain it . It is , however , possible that à poet may be a vicious person , and yet be un ...
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Page 61 - Judah is a lion's whelp : from the prey, my son, thou art gone up : he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion ; who shall rouse him up ? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until he come to Shiloh ; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 140 - Falsely luxurious ! will not man awake ; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due, and sacred song...
Page 46 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 50 - For a fire is kindled in Mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Page 55 - And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
Page 60 - Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power : unstable as water, thou shalt not excel ; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed ; then defiledst thou it : he went up to my couch.
Page 8 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 65 - And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, For the precious things of heaven, for the dew, And for the deep that coucheth beneath...
Page 70 - Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
Page 31 - The enemy said I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.