St George and St Michael
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781153689083
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Excerpt: ... be least hope of Divine grace. 'Just such a mill is my mind, ' he said to himself. 'But can I suppose that to sit down and read all day like a monk, would bring me nearer to the thing I want?' He turned over the volume half thinking, half brooding. 'I will look again, ' he thought, 'at the verses which that day my father gave me to read. Truly I did not well understand them.' Once more he read the poem through. It closed with these lines: So far this Light the Raies extends, As that no place It comprehends. So deepe this Sound, that though it speake, It cannot by a Sence so weake Be entertain'd. A Redolent Grace The Aire blowes not from place to place. A pleasant Taste, of that delight It doth confound all appetite. A strict Embrace, not felt, yet leaves That vertue, where it takes it cleaves. This Light, this Sound, this Savouring Grace, This Tastefull Sweet, this Strict Embrace, No Place containes, no Eye can see, My God is; and there's none but Hee. 'I HAVE gained something, ' he cried aloud. 'I understand it now-at least I think I do. What if, in fighting for the truth as men say, the doors of a man's own heart should at length fly open for her entrance What if the understanding of that which is uttered concerning her, be a sign that she herself draweth nigh Then I will go on.-And that I may go on, I must recover my mare.' Honestly, however, he could not quite justify the scheme. All the efforts of his imagination, as he rode home, to bring his judgment to the same side with itself, had failed, and he had been driven to confess the project a foolhardy one. But, on the other hand, had he not had a leading thitherward? Whence else the sudden conviction that Scudamore had taken her, and the burning desire to seek her in Raglan stables? And had he not heard mighty arguments from the lips of the most favoured preachers in the army for an unquestioning compliance with leadings? Nay, had he not had more than a leading? Was it not a sign to encourage...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153689083 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153689081 |
| Weight | 0.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.21 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 86 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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