FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION
Search the corpus.
Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.
4,043 matching pages
Page 52 of 2031910 · PDF PAGE 33
THE HERMIT 23 When God revealed Himself to mortal prayer He gave a fatal opening to Voltaire. Our hermit had dispensed with Sinais thunder, But on the other hand he made no blunder ; He knew (no doubt) that any axiom Would furnish bricks to build some Donkeydom. But !all who urged that hermit to confess Caught the infection of his happiness. I would it were my fate to dree his weird ; I think that I will grow an elfin beard.
1910 · PDF PAGE 239
…dict crashed, could and curse) tongue, for Out Heaven Tottered Hence hence ! [Here Yea ! I And if at instead wallowed larks ! Get must God no Slave, not truculence ; Now, crumbled One thy Our throne please, contemptuous remarks ; at restrict his Says : a sir, crone, sorry his stanza the theological Cringed third flickered this in utterly upon verse.] dung. we himself whom torrid, (with Ghosts write Jesus you thy
1912 · PDF PAGE 86
…, the hero hails The dawn, that night of fear still shaking His body. All death’s doubt assails Him. Was it sleep or was it waking? “ By God, I care not, I!” (quod he). “Or wake or sleep, or live or dead, I will pursue this mystery. So help me Grace of Godlihead!” Ay! with thy wasted limbs pursue That subtle Beast home to his den! Who knows but thou mayst win athrough, Sir Palamede the Saracen?
1909 · PDF PAGE 116
…114 than ever! The brain is in revolt; it has been com- pressed too long. Yet it is impossible to rest. It is too late. The Irresistible God, whose name is Destiny, has been invoked, and He hath answered. The matter is in His hands; He must end it, either with that mighty spiritual Experience which I have sought, or else with black madness, or with death. By the Body of God, swear thou that death would come— welcome, welcome, welcome!
1912 · PDF PAGE 70
…a frenzy of glee, a bout Of death, her crimson tongue that drips, that drips with blood, The breath of her dead lovers on her lips. Dear God ! Sweet Christ ! My Virgin, sweeter than the joy thou hadst of love Unpriced, when to thy soft blonde nest thou hadst the Dove, And crushed the Godhead to thy maiden breast, and craved Outgushed the Unction by whose grace the blest are saved Sweet, sweet, oh sweeter when I twine the bond of hate Complete about him, with one kiss to fond to mate His soul with death, cold slime of lust, my heart. O Lord. C…
1907 · PDF PAGE 316
… , yet his ignorance is so naïve, that he all but lifted the veil of Isis . His “ Ignorance " is in every way equivalent to Berkeley's “ God .” It is absolutely true of Kant , who set himself the question , “ Must we believe that Mysticism is like some vast ocean , the empire of illusion ? " And then again and again answered in the negative . He proposed time after time that Reason be its own end , founded upon Right and Duty , and in the Freedom of the “ Person ," the moral sublimity of “ Duty ”: It is not so much because it is subject to the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 23
…great mountains of the earth. Pollitt had made a poet of me ; Eckenstein had made a man of me ; Cecil Jones and Allan Bennett had made a God of me. I had forgotten the Plymouth Brethren ! But early in this spring, I went down to Eastbourne to my mother’s house, and some of the old bitterness came back. In her house were two vile old women, hypocrites and slaves to the marrow. The mere meanness and old- maid-ishness of it would have sickened me. These mange- bitten cats ! But there was worse. Only one food was on the table for breakfast, lunch, …
1898 · PDF PAGE 45
…ot, that ye may know My paths shall be most surely trod, That I who answer thus, who show Myself in wielding sword and rod, Am high Lord God ! ” Silent the voice, and through the nave And chancel droned the choir ; the sun Darkened, as Satan’s perjured slave, The priest, in blessing, made them one. The Deed was done.
1905 · PDF PAGE 53
…my hair, And all thy dark caresses wear sin’s raiment on thy melting lips— Nay, by the witchcraft of thy charms to sleep, nor dream that God survive ; To wake, this only to contrive—fresh passions in thy naked arms ; And, at that moment when thy breath mixes with mine, like wine, to call Each memory, one merged into all, to kiss, to sleep, to mate with death !
1908 · PDF PAGE 86
…. Thine is the sympathetic balm That eases from Life’s bruising rod ; And Thine the meek eternal calm That brings our souls in tune with GOD Amen. O 79
1911 · PDF PAGE 37
…med To greet Thee, Mary maid, assumed. All earth and heaven compose Thy throne ; All saints and maids and martyrs own The joyous gift of GOD to Thee, And Angels quire Thy sanctity. Abase, my head, to this Divine Decree, and worship Mary’s shrine Wherefrom the healing springs upstart :— Lift up, mine heart ! Lift up, mine heart ! Amen. L 30
1907 · PDF PAGE 223
… the three heads of the terrible offspring of Echidna's womb , whose names are Berkeley , Hume , and Kant . BERKELEY . Berkeley , that “ God - illumined Adept ,” ) almost at the commencement of his introduction to “ The Prin ciples of Human Knowledge ,” states : “ Upon the whole ,I am inclined to think that the far greater part , if not all , of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers , and blocked up the way to know ledge , are entirely owing to ourselves that we have first raised a dust , and then complained we cannot see .…
1909 · PDF PAGE 117
9.17. 9-45- ΙΟ.ΙΟ. IO.20. JOHN ST. JOHN And to Thee, and from Thee, Ο thou great god Destiny, there is no appeal. Thou turnest not one hair’s breadth from Thy path appointed. That which ”John St. John" means (else is it a blank name) is that which he must be—and what is that? The issue is with Thee—cannot one wait with fortitude, whether it be for the King’s Banqueting-House or for the Headsman and the Block? Breakfast—croissant, sandwich, 2 coffees. Concen- trating !?#”the Work as well as possible. Arrived at Brenner’s studio. The rest has pro…
1910 · PDF PAGE 145
…RGRIS Hail ! Hermes ! thou the wands of ill Hast touched with strength, and they are shivered ! The way is open unto will ! The pregnant Goddess is delivered ! Happy, yea, happy ! happy is he That hath looked forth upon the Bier That goeth to the House of Rest ! His heart is lit with melody ; Peace in his house is master of fear ; His holy Name is in the West When the sun sinks, the royal rays Of moonrise flash across the days ! I have risen ! I have risen ! as a mighty hawk of gold ! From the golden egg I gather, and my wings the world enfold…
1911 · PDF PAGE 298
…qual war ls wiser than only to weep— Το weep for evermore ! Now, at the crown of the year, The decadent days of October, I come to thee, God, without fear ; Pious, chaste, and sober. I solemnly sacrifice This first-fruit flower of wine For a vehicle of thy vice, As I am Thine to be mine. For five in the year gone by I pray Thee give to me one; A lover stronger than I, A moon to swallow the sun ! May he be like a lily-white goat, Crisp as a thicket of thorns, With a collar of gold for his throat, A scarlet bow for his horns! CANCER. May our Lady Art…
1911 · PDF PAGE 298
…qual war ls wiser than only to weep— Το weep for evermore ! Now, at the crown of the year, The decadent days of October, I come to thee, God, without fear ; Pious, chaste, and sober. I solemnly sacrifice This first-fruit flower of wine For a vehicle of thy vice, As I am Thine to be mine. For five in the year gone by I pray Thee give to me one; A lover stronger than I, A moon to swallow the sun ! May he be like a lily-white goat, Crisp as a thicket of thorns, With a collar of gold for his throat, A scarlet bow for his horns! CANCER. May our Lady Art…
1912 · PDF PAGE 123
…Isles ! [MONICA assumes throne ; all applaud and do homage, MONICA comes forward and kneels be- fore THE LEGATE. MONICA. Now glory be to God, and glory to His Son, And glory to His Spirit, the eternal Three in One ! I humbly kneel and swear all truth and faith to keep, All power of all my prayer, all vigil to your sleep ! [COUNT ALESSANDRO joins MONICA, kneeling My good lord here shall guide, his wit and wisdom serve, Should Monica his bride stumble or slip or swerve. [LUCREZIA joins MONICA, kneeling. My lady here shall melt my heart, if toil a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 71
The Falsity of the Frank. 63 “ conscious communion with God on the part of an atheist ” — and so on. 3. Again Habib represents Allah ; the constant interchange is very confusing, and to Western minds a great blemish on the poem. But the chil- dish subtlety of the Eastern mind regards this as a “ veil ”, preventing the unbeliever from penetrating the allegory. 4. Q’uran CXII. Cf. Browning (Ring and Book, The Pope) for these 3 qualities. 5. Affirms the subjective value of Devotion.
1911 · PDF PAGE 86
…. Thine is the sympathetic balm That eases from Life’s bruising rod ; And Thine the meek eternal calm That brings our souls in tune with GOD Amen. O 79
1943 · PDF PAGE 1
…nt of the soul of Muscovy—Ivan Naropxy To AueisreR CROWLEY, 93 Jermyn Street, S.W.1 I wish to subscribe foroninen£0Pounens0f THE CITY OF GOD which will be published at 55. and enclose | my cheque for Please send the cop.....when ready to: Name s AAI E88 onc