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... priesthood under many veils from the common eye , is naturally alluded to in the Drama . The Prometheus of Eschylus ranks not only among the loftiest , but is also the most purely intel- lectual poem in the world . In the spectacle of ...
... priesthood under many veils from the common eye , is naturally alluded to in the Drama . The Prometheus of Eschylus ranks not only among the loftiest , but is also the most purely intel- lectual poem in the world . In the spectacle of ...
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... priest of Nature , will never despair ; the fountains of hope , and goodness , and love , are evermore welling up in his heart ; and , however cheerless may be his path in life , his faith will ever bear him unfalteringly on . The sense ...
... priest of Nature , will never despair ; the fountains of hope , and goodness , and love , are evermore welling up in his heart ; and , however cheerless may be his path in life , his faith will ever bear him unfalteringly on . The sense ...
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... which is an obli- gation upon him , a necessity , and a moral law . He is the Priest of Nature , as of Humanity ; his life and his confessions must be one and the same . SCENE I. " If I am traduced by tongues which PREFACE . xxix.
... which is an obli- gation upon him , a necessity , and a moral law . He is the Priest of Nature , as of Humanity ; his life and his confessions must be one and the same . SCENE I. " If I am traduced by tongues which PREFACE . xxix.
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... priesthood , should the people wake From their brute superstition . He hath sunk Egypt so low in bondage , that he is Great from the very dust of their prostration ! EPIMETHEUS . The citizens of Memphis honour him ; They are free , and ...
... priesthood , should the people wake From their brute superstition . He hath sunk Egypt so low in bondage , that he is Great from the very dust of their prostration ! EPIMETHEUS . The citizens of Memphis honour him ; They are free , and ...
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... priests . Ameliorate their lot , thou dost convert The happy , thoughtless , and inconsequent slave Into the jealous , proud , rebellious freeman . Is it not better to employ them thus , Than lead them forth to war and homicide ...
... priests . Ameliorate their lot , thou dost convert The happy , thoughtless , and inconsequent slave Into the jealous , proud , rebellious freeman . Is it not better to employ them thus , Than lead them forth to war and homicide ...
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A Record of the Pyramids: A Drama, in Ten Scenes (Classic Reprint) John Edmund Reade Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
altar Amasis BABYLONIAN bear beautiful Behold beneath blessed breath brother brow brute Cambyses CATILINE chains CHIEF HIEROPHANT CHIEF PREFECT crown crushed dared death deeds descend divinity Dost thou doth Drama dwell earth Egypt EGYPTIAN embruted EPIMETHEUS eternal eyes falchion fear feel fellow-men felt fire flame forgot freedom gathered glory gods guard hands hath hear heard heart heaven Herodotus honour hope human immortal infinite inspiration ITALY JOHN EDMUND READE justice king labour lake Liberty LILIS living look mankind MEMPHIAN Memphis mighty heart mind moral Moris MULTITUDE Nature never Nile NOTE NUBIAN o'er Osiris passion pediment PHOENICIAN Plato Poem poet Poland priests PROMETHEUS Pyramids ratified records rise round ruins SCENE SEGED shew slavery slaves soul spirit stand strength sublime temple Thebes thee thine thou art thou dost thou hast thought throne triumph truth tyranny tyrants voice Voices of prophecy worship
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 83 - It were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it, he is so above me: In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in hia sphere.
Seite 41 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves; for, if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike
Seite 95 - of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron. Can be retentive to the strength of spirit!" ' I am fire and air; my other element* I give to baser life.
Seite 7 - It is the mind that makes the body rich ; And, as the sun breaks through the darkest cloud, So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
Seite xvii - GOD hath made all things beautiful in their seasons ; also, He hath placed the world in man's heart: yet cannot man find out the work which GOD worketh from the beginning to the end.
Seite 29 - Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods ? Draw near them, then, in being merciful; Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge
Seite 95 - my duty, An doth a rock against the chiding flood, Should the approach of this wild river break, And stand unshaken yours
Seite xxi - If I am traduced by tongues which neither know My faculties nor person, yet will be The chronicles of my doing.
Seite 115 - The land we were now in had anciently been cultivated, as there appeared many stumps of palm and other trees nearly petrified. I also observed the vine in great plenty. The scene here was beautiful; the silence of the night, the beams of the radiant moon shining on the still
Seite 111 - using, as vehicles, every species of terrestrial, winged, and aquatic animals, it finally enters, a second time, into the human body. They affirm that it undergoes all these changes in the space of three thousand