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Orthodoxy by Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936)
... was full of knights and castles, like a poem. He avowedly preferred the black discs of draughts ...
Pensées by Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
... changes the force of a discourse or a poem. Love or hate alters the aspect of justice ...
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler by Augustine, Saint (354-430)
... these snares [of the Manicheans]! For verses and poems and “the flying Medea” Cf. Ovid, Metamorphoses, ... one who believes in them). For verses and poems I can turn into food for the mind ... , and I did not see. I composed poems, in which I was not free to place ...
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) by Henry, Matthew (1662-1714)
... were no encomiums of her in orations, nor poems inscribed to her memory; but the widows showed ...
Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established by Burgon, John William (1813-1888)
... that a recent controversy concerning a short English Poem—which some able men were confident might have ...
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) by Henry, Matthew (1662-1714)
... expresses himself concerning it in one of his poems: How sweetly doth my Master sound, my Master ...
In Praise of Folly by Erasmus, Desiderius (c. 1466-1536)
... ass, nor he that should admire an insipid poem as excellent would be presently thought mad; but ...
NPNF1-11. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
... of it as a substantial See Herbert’s Poems, 2d. on Sin. “Oh that I could a ...
NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
... congregational singing. There is no reason why the poem should not date from the fourth century; indeed ...
Dark Night of the Soul by John of the Cross, St. (1542-1591)
... to in the first stanza of his poem and the varieties of pain and affliction ... line of the first stanza of the poem is expounded in three admirable chapters (xi ... is compared to the ‘staircase’ of the poem. This comparison suggests to the Saint an exposition ...
