Precious stones [quotations] (collected by H.L.S. Lear). Rubies (Diamonds, Pearls). Rubies, Tema 152Henrietta Louisa Lear 1882 |
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Términos y frases comunes
angels ARIADNE artist beauty better birds blessed character Christ Christian Church cloud colour creation creatures crystals death diamonds DIAMONDS ART divine earth earthly eternal evil eyes faith fear feel flowers forms FRANCIS DE SALES Francis of Assisi fruit gift give glory God's grace hand hath hear heart heaven heavenly holy HUGH MACMILLAN human infinite influence J. H. NEWMAN JEREMY TAYLOR Jesus JOSHUA REYNOLDS KEMPIS kingdom of heaven labour leaves light live look Lord man's means mind moral mountains MOZLEY nature never noble object ourselves pain painting PEARLS perfect Pharisee PLATO pleasure prayer present Psalms rest river RUSKIN saints seems sense shadow sight sing sorrow soul speak spikenard spirit spring stone strength strong talk teaching temptation thee things thou thoughts tion tree trial true truth whole words worldliness
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Página 179 - For he is the Lord our God : and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Página 90 - And instead of this, there is not a moment of any day of our lives, when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure.
Página 45 - Utilitarians, who would turn, if they had their way, themselves and their race into vegetables ; men who think, as far as such can be said to think, that the meat is more than the life, and the raiment than the body, who look to the earth as a stable, and to its fruit as fodder ; vinedressers and husbandmen, who love the corn they grind, and the grapes they crush, better than the gardens of the Angels upon the slopes of Eden...
Página 90 - If in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity, we turn to the sky as a last resource, which of its phenomena do we speak of ? One says, it has been wet ; and another, it has been windy ; and another, it has been warm.
Página 172 - The meaning of Song goes deep. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us ? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that!
Página 44 - Man's use and function (and let him who will not grant me this follow me no farther, for this I purpose always to assume) are, to be the witness of the glory of God, and to advance that glory by his reasonable obedience and resultant happiness.
Página 194 - What," it will be questioned, " when the sun rises do you not see a round disk of fire something like a guinea ? Oh ! no ! no ! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying — ' Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty ! ' " I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight.
Página 142 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Página 90 - The noblest scenes of the earth can be seen and known but by few; it is not intended that man should live always in the midst of them, he injures them by his presence, he ceases to feel them if he be always with them; but the sky is for all; bright as it is, it is not "too bright, nor good, for human nature's daily food...
Página 45 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.