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Anglican Illustrations

Scripture, Tradition, and Reason — the "three-legged stool" — seeking the via media.

Key question: “How do we faithfully interpret this text using the wisdom of Scripture, Church tradition, and God-given Reason?”

24,107 sermon illustrations through the Anglican lens

Poetry

Ode to Liberty

Yet, Freedom, yet, thy banner, torn but flying, Streams like a thunder-storm against the wind.--BYRON. A glorious people vibrated again The lightning of the nations: Liberty From heart to heart, from tower to tower, o'er Spain, Scattering contagious fire into the sky, Gleamed.

Universal

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1859 words

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Poetry

The First Anniversary Of The Government Under O.C.

Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise; So Man, declining alwayes, disappears. In the Weak Circles of increasing Years; And his short Tumults of themselves Compose, While flowing Time above his Head does close.

Scenes From the Faust of Goethe

SCENE 1.--PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN. THE LORD AND THE HOST OF HEAVEN. ENTER THREE ARCHANGELS.

Paradise Lost: Book 09

No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, and with him partake Rural repast; permitting him the while Venial discourse unblam'd.

296. The Five Carlins: An Election Ballad

THERE was five Carlins in the South, They fell upon a scheme, To send a lad to London town, To bring them tidings hame. Nor only bring them tidings hame, But do their errands there, And aiblins gowd and honor...

Universal

Robert Burns

587 words

Fable

The Ass's Brains

Wit has always an answer ready

Universalwitcleverness

Aesop

Short9 words

Fable

The Swallow and the Other Birds

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin

Universalforesightwisdom

Aesop

Short19 words

Fable

The Belly and the Members

All must work together or the body will go to pieces

Universalcooperationunity

Aesop

Short16 words

Poetry

87. The Twa Dogs

’TWAS 1 in that place o’ Scotland’s isle, That bears the name o’ auld King Coil, Upon a bonie day in June, When wearin’ thro’ the afternoon, Twa dogs, that were na thrang at hame, Forgather’d ance upon a time.

Ode on Venice

when thy marble walls Are level with the waters, there shall be A cry of nations o'er thy sunken halls, A loud lament along the sweeping sea! If I, a northern wanderer, weep for thee, What should thy sons do?--anything...

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

1099 words

Poetry

The Vanities of Life

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.--_Solomon What are life's joys and gains? What pleasures crowd its ways, That man should take such pains To seek them all his days? Sift this untoward strife On which thy mind is bent: See...

Satire I. to Mr Fortescue.

SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE IMITATED. There are (I scarce can think it, but am told) There are, to whom my satire seems too bold: Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough, And something said of Chartres much too rough.

Universal

Alexander Pope

1168 words

Fable

The Hares and the Frogs

There is always someone worse off than yourself

Universalperspectivecourage

Aesop

Short13 words

Poetry

The Italian in England

That second time they hunted me From hill to plain, from shore to sea, And Austria, hounding far and wide Her blood-hounds thro' the country-side, Breathed hot an instant on my trace,-- I made, six days, a hiding-place Of that...

Andrea Del Sarto (Called "the Faultless Painter")

But do not let us quarrel any more, No, my Lucrezia! bear with me for once: Sit down and all shall happen as you wish. You turn your face, but does it bring your heart? I'll work then for your friend's friend, never fear.

Brother of All, with Generous Hand.

1 BROTHER of all, with generous hand, Of thee, pondering on thee, as o’er thy tomb, I and my Soul, A thought to launch in memory of thee, A burial verse for thee. What may we chant, O thou within this tomb?

Universal

Walt Whitman

518 words

Fable

The Young Thief and His Mother

Train up a child in the way he should go

Universalparentingdiscipline

Aesop

Short16 words

Poetry

Heaven and Earth

SCENE I.--_A woody and mountainous district near Mount Ararat.--Time, midnight_. _Enter_ ANAH _and_ AHOLIBAMAH. OUR father sleeps: it is the hour when they Who love us are accustomed to descend Through the deep clouds o'er rocky Ararat:-- How my heart beats!

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

13577 words

Poetry

War

Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurled Death, fate, and ruin, on a bleeding world. on yon heath what countless victims lie, Hark!

Universal

Percy Bysshe Shelley

607 words

Fable

The Man and the Wood

Do not provide your enemy with the means for your own destruction

Universalself-sabotagewisdom

Aesop

Short17 words

Fable

The Horse and the Ass

Better humble security than gilded danger

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Aesop

Short11 words

Poetry

Mont Blanc

LINES WRITTEN IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI.

Hellas: A Lyrical Drama

MANTIS EIM EZTHLON AGONUN.--OEDIP. PROLOGUE TO HELLAS.

Werner; or, the Inheritance

SCENE I.--_The Hall of a decayed Palace near a small Town on the Northern Frontier of Silesia--the Night tempestuous_. WERNER _and_ JOSEPHINE, _his Wife_. _Jos._ My love, be calmer! _Wer._ I am calm.

Universal

George Gordon, Lord Byron

42661 words