World's Strange Religions, 第 3 巻

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Thompson Barlow Company, 1927

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7 ページ - The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! "Where burning Sappho loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
31 ページ - That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or sight : Nor wintry leaves nor vernal, Nor days nor things diurnal; Only the sleep eternal In an eternal night.
7 ページ - Hers, is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb; Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away!
51 ページ - I AM in Rome ! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy ? What has befallen me ? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome ! A thousand busy thoughts li nsh on my mind, a thousand images ; And I spring up as girt to run a race...
25 ページ - Sow an act, and you reap a Habit ; Sow a habit, and you reap a Character; Sow a character, and you reap a Destiny.
60 ページ - I block the roads, and drift the fields with snow ; I chase the wild-fowl from the frozen fen ; My frosts congeal the rivers in their flow, My fires light up the hearths and hearts of men.
65 ページ - There is a Lust in Man no Charm can tame, Of loudly publishing his Neighbour's Shame." Hence; "On Eagle's Wings immortal Scandals fly, While virtuous Actions are but born and die.
43 ページ - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
75 ページ - History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature ; his earliest expression of what can be called Thought.
24 ページ - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

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