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Meantime he trembles because he cannot escape and asks despondently of his Captor : “ Ah ! is thy love indeed A weed , albeit an amaranthine weed , Suffering no flowers except its own to mount ? ” THE RECOMPENSE OF SURRENDER S THE poem ...
Meantime he trembles because he cannot escape and asks despondently of his Captor : “ Ah ! is thy love indeed A weed , albeit an amaranthine weed , Suffering no flowers except its own to mount ? ” THE RECOMPENSE OF SURRENDER S THE poem ...
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... for beauty is not splendour , but there is a quality , in the union of sacrifice , truth and power , which falls upon the mind with a satisfaction akin to that which comes through the beauty of a flower or the song of a bird .
... for beauty is not splendour , but there is a quality , in the union of sacrifice , truth and power , which falls upon the mind with a satisfaction akin to that which comes through the beauty of a flower or the song of a bird .
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“ Those ever springing flowers and ever flowing streams had been dyed by the deep colours of human endurance , valour , and virtue ; and the crests of the sable hills that rose against the evening sky received a deeper worship , because ...
“ Those ever springing flowers and ever flowing streams had been dyed by the deep colours of human endurance , valour , and virtue ; and the crests of the sable hills that rose against the evening sky received a deeper worship , because ...
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intimately of his relationship to Jesus Christ , Tennyson pointed to a flower and said , “ What the sun is to that flower , Jesus Christ is to me . " He may speak to us , then , of the high possibilities which are ours when we belong to ...
intimately of his relationship to Jesus Christ , Tennyson pointed to a flower and said , “ What the sun is to that flower , Jesus Christ is to me . " He may speak to us , then , of the high possibilities which are ours when we belong to ...
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A citizen wrote the company suggesting that the embankments might be made an ornament to the city , instead of a perpetual eyesore , if only they would clothe its sides with shrubs and flowers . His letter was returned .
A citizen wrote the company suggesting that the embankments might be made an ornament to the city , instead of a perpetual eyesore , if only they would clothe its sides with shrubs and flowers . His letter was returned .
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| Title | Spiritual Voices in Modern Literature |
| Author | Trevor H. Davies |
| Publisher | George H. Doran Company, 1919 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 18 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 312 pages |
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