The Renaissance and Welsh Literature: Being a Review of Some of the Welsh Classics in the Light of the Humanistic Movement

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James James, 1908 - 309 էջ

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Էջ 55 - We are accounted righteous before GOD, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST by faith ; and not for our own works or deservings. Wherefore, that we are justified by faith only, is a most wholesome doctrine, and very full of comfort, as more largely is expressed in the Homily of Justification.
Էջ 248 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Էջ 279 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Էջ 123 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Էջ 189 - I sing of dews, of rains, and piece by piece Of balm, of oil, of spice, and amber-greece. I sing of times trans-shifting; and I write How roses first came red, and lilies white.
Էջ 250 - I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six-and-thirty moons past. It began upon the following occasion: it is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs, before we eat them, was upon the larger end; but his present majesty's grandfather, while he was a boy, going to eat...
Էջ 55 - WE are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works or deservings...
Էջ 87 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Էջ 87 - Though truth in her very nakedness sits in so deep a pit, that from Gades to Aurora and Ganges few eyes can sound her, I hope yet those few here will so discover and confirm that, the date being out of her darkness in this morning of our poet, he shall now gird his temples with the sun," — we pronounce that such a prose is intolerable.
Էջ 192 - TO ANTHEA. Now is the time when all the lights wax dim ; And thou, Anthea, must withdraw from him Who was thy servant: Dearest, bury me Under that holy-oke, or gospel-tree ; Where, though thou see'st not, thou may'st think upon Me, when thou yeerly go'st procession...

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