The Arena, Volume 1Arena Publishing Company, 1889 |
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Agnosticism Alaska American ancient ARENA atheist authority become believe blood Bochnia Brooks called capital punishment Catholic century child Christ Christian church civilization classes Constitution crime dead death DION BOUCICAULT divine divorce drama earth England eternal evil existence eyes face fact faith Familistère father force give hand heart heaven HELENA MODJESKA human hundred ignorance industrial intelligent Jesus John Norton justice knowledge labor light liquor living look Mamelons marriage matter ment mind moral nation nature never organized persons Phillips Brooks political present profit sharing punishment question race religion religious rum power Saguenay schools sense Shakespeare social society SOLOMON SCHINDLER soul spirit stamp mill sweet thee Theocracy theology things thou thought thousand tion to-day Trapper true truth Ungava woman women words worship writers
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Page 139 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 293 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard...
Page 455 - Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish aught from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
Page 462 - Then the devil taketh Him up into the holy city, and setteth Him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto Him, If thou be the Son of God, cast Thyself down : for it is written, He shall give His angels charge concerning Thee : and in their hands they shall bear Thee up, lest at any time Thou dash Thy foot against a stone.
Page 703 - This is mentioned to vindicate tragedy from the small esteem, or rather infamy, which in the account of many it undergoes at this day, with other common interludes; happening through the poets' error of intermixing comic stuff with tragic sadness and gravity, or introducing trivial and vulgar persons; which by all judicious hath been counted absurd and brought in without discretion, corruptly to gratify the people.
Page 455 - Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
Page 511 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation : all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not ; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...
Page 545 - For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the Truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses...
Page 463 - Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, 'Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.' " Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
Page 137 - she never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm in the bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought, and with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at Grief.