Edwin Arnold as Poetizer and as Paganizer: Containing an Examination of the "Light of Asia", for Its Literature and for Its Buddhism |
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Page 41 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk...
Page 112 - BUT I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
Page 104 - When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?
Page 42 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was...
Page 104 - And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight. 22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
Page 104 - Then Jesus answering, said unto them ; Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard ; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached ; and blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me.
Page 137 - Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father ; and the younger men as brethren ; the elder women as mothers ; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
Page 44 - Leave love for love of lovers, for woe's sake Quit state for sorrow, and deliverance make. So sigh we, passing o'er the silver strings, To thee who know'st not yet of earthly things; So say we; mocking, as we pass away, These lovely shadows wherewith thou dost play.
Page 125 - Give freely and receive, but take from none By greed, or force or fraud, what is his own.
Page 44 - We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo t as the wind is so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.