Literature and Poetry: Studies on the English Language; the Poetry of the Bible; the Dies Iræ; the Stabat Mater; the Hymns of St. Bernard; the University, Ancient and Modern; Dante Alighieri; the Divina Commedia |
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... Catholic or Douay version , is the predominance of the Saxon element , while the latter , being based upon the Latin Vulgate , employs too many Latin terms . The idiom of the Authorized Version of 1611 is chiefly due to the previous ...
... Catholic or Douay version , is the predominance of the Saxon element , while the latter , being based upon the Latin Vulgate , employs too many Latin terms . The idiom of the Authorized Version of 1611 is chiefly due to the previous ...
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... catholic , ecclesi- astic , laic , school , system , Testament , trinity , unity ; perhaps also the stem verbs bib from bibere , carp from carpere , cede from cedere ( or the French ceder ) , urge from urgere . ( b ) The second class of ...
... catholic , ecclesi- astic , laic , school , system , Testament , trinity , unity ; perhaps also the stem verbs bib from bibere , carp from carpere , cede from cedere ( or the French ceder ) , urge from urgere . ( b ) The second class of ...
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... Catholic Church during the Middle Ages down to the Reformation . Since the time of Louis XIV . the French gained the ascendancy at the courts and in all the higher circles of Europe ; it is still the language of diplomacy , and its ...
... Catholic Church during the Middle Ages down to the Reformation . Since the time of Louis XIV . the French gained the ascendancy at the courts and in all the higher circles of Europe ; it is still the language of diplomacy , and its ...
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... Catholics , is an amplified combination of the salutation of the angel ( i . 28 ) : - 1 Or , " of his good will . " The Revised Version : " in whom He is well pleased . " This translation is supported by the best ancient authorities ...
... Catholics , is an amplified combination of the salutation of the angel ( i . 28 ) : - 1 Or , " of his good will . " The Revised Version : " in whom He is well pleased . " This translation is supported by the best ancient authorities ...
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... Catholic University of Innsbruck , de- fends similar views and furnished specimens of Hebrew poems in metrical arrangement in conformity with Syriac poetry , but in 1 All metre is rhythm , but not all rhythm is metre , as Augustin says ...
... Catholic University of Innsbruck , de- fends similar views and furnished specimens of Hebrew poems in metrical arrangement in conformity with Syriac poetry , but in 1 All metre is rhythm , but not all rhythm is metre , as Augustin says ...
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Page 38 - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Page 85 - 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.
Page 40 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted— nevermore!
Page 373 - Per me si va nell' eterno dolore, Per me si va tra la perduta gente. Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore: Fecemi la divina potestate, 5 La somma sapienza e il primo amore. Dinanzi a me non fur cose create, Se non eterne, ed io eterno duro: * Lasciate ogni speranza, voi, ch
Page 28 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Page 16 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy knotted and combined locks to part ; And each particular hair to stand an end. Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 86 - Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Page 100 - Blessed is the man that heareth me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors.
Page 378 - Christ will come when a great multitude which no man can number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues...
Page 98 - And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.