Notes from a Diary, Kept Chiefly in Southern India, 1881-1886, Volume 2

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Page 182 - AWAKE! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight : And Lo ! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
Page 39 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 355 - He was acquiring what it is the chief function of all higher education to impart, the art, namely, of so relieving the ideal or poetic traits, the elements of distinction, in our everyday life — of so exclusively living in them — that the unadorned remainder of it, the mere drift or debris of our days, comes to be as though it were not.
Page 40 - ... and in swift thought touched on that Eternal wisdom, which abideth over all) — could this be continued on, and other visions of kind far unlike be withdrawn, and this one ravish, and absorb, and wrap up its beholder amid these inward joys, so that life might be for ever like that one moment of understanding which now we sighed after; were not this, Enter into thy Master's Joy?
Page 39 - Thy secret ways so ordering it, that she and I stood alone, leaning in a certain window, which looked into the garden of the house where we now lay, at Ostia; where removed from the din of men, we were recruiting from the fatigues of a long journey, for the voyage. We were discoursing then together, alone, very sweetly; and forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before...
Page 78 - Go forth, O Christian soul, from this world, in the name of God, the Father Almighty, who created thee...
Page 3 - The effect of the Pantheon is totally the reverse of that of St. Peter's. Though not a fourth part of the size, it is, as it were, the visible image of the universe ; in the perfection of its proportions, as when you regard the unmeasured dome of heaven, the idea of magnitude is swallowed up and lost.
Page 48 - Ci gît un très-grand personnage , Qui fut d'un illustre lignage , Qui posséda mille vertus , Qui ne trompa jamais, qui fut toujours fort sage. Je n'en dirai pas davantage : C'est trop mentir pour cent écus.
Page 40 - If then, having uttered this, they too should be hushed, having roused only our ears to Him Who made them, and He alone speak, not by them, but by Himself, that we may hear His Word, not through any tongue of flesh, nor Angel's voice, nor sound of thunder, nor in the dark riddle oi a similitude, but, might hear Whom in these things we love, might hear His very self without these...
Page 40 - Whom in these things we love, might hear His Very Self without these (as we two now strained ourselves, and in swift thought touched on that Eternal Wisdom which abideth over all); -could this be continued on, and other visions of kind far unlike be withdrawn, and this one ravish, and absorb, and wrap up its beholder amid these inward joys, so that life might be for ever like that one moment of understanding which now we sighed after; were not this, Enter into thy Master's joy?

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