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History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073 by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
... . The translation is by Edward Caswall (Hymns and Poems, 2nd ed., 1873, and previously in Lyra Catholica ...
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 11: 1865 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
... profit. When I have read some masterly tragic poem, and verse after verse has dwelt upon ... that last stanza, but we wished the poem not shortened. We never wanted to have ... verses blotted out. God is writing a great poem of human history. The subject is the ...
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
... had composed the first of a series of poems, condensed, passionate, and original which prophesied that the ...
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... learning and the religion of Greece; and the poems of Homer, instead of being admired as the ... the Platonic school are not worth the short poem of Catullus on the same extraordinary subject. The ...
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... was intended, as a cruel insult. Gregory's Poem on his own Life contains some beautiful lines ... 's vows, &c. Shakspeare had never read the poems of Gregory Nazianzen;…
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... this world, (read Prior's verbose but eloquent poem,) and the happy ten days of the emperor ... ) mentions a Syriac version of Homer's two poems, by Theophilus,…
Practical Mysticism by Underhill, Evelyn (1875-1941)
... Cross in the most wonderful of all mystical poems. “He who has had experience of this,” says ...
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 24: 1878 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
... You have given us, appropriate to ourselves the poems, parables and prophecies which once vibrated in dark ...
Phantastes: A faerie romance for men and women by MacDonald, George (1824-1905)
... hard couch, and read a tale or a poem till the book dropped from his hand; but ...
Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 58: 1912 by Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834-1892)
... Sermons have a sacred unction upon them. The poems of George Herbert, I should think, were most ...
