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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

The Fens

Wandering by the river's edge, I love to rustle through the sedge And through the woods of reed to tear Almost as high as bushes are.

Universal

John Clare

513 words

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Fable

The Goose With the Golden Eggs

Greed oft o'er reaches itself

Universalgreedpatience

Aesop

Short11 words

Poetry

The Fallen Elm

Old elm, that murmured in our chimney top The sweetest anthem autumn ever made And into mellow whispering calms would drop When showers fell on thy many coloured shade And when dark tempests mimic thunder made-- While darkness came as...

Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax

Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to Pastures hew; Who of his great Design in pain Did for a Model vault his Brain, Whose Columnes should so...

Don Juan

FRAGMENT ON THE BACK OF THE MS. OF CANTO I.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

120901 words

Poetry

In a Gondola

I send my heart up to thee, all my heart In this my singing.

Universal

Robert Browning

1434 words

Fable

Avaricious and Envious

Vices are their own punishment

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Aesop

Short8 words

Poetry

Paradise Regained: The Third Book

So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, confuted and convinced Of his weak arguing and fallacious drift; At length, collecting all his serpent wiles, With soothing words...

The Task: Book II, The Time-Piece (excerpts)

England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrain'd to love thee.

Epistle To My Brother George

Full many a dreary hour have I past, My brain bewildered, and my mind o'ercast With heaviness; in seasons when I've thought No spherey strains by me could e'er be caught From the blue dome, though I to dimness gaze...

Sohrab and Rustum

And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream.

The Retrospect: Cwm Elan, 1812

A scene, which 'wildered fancy viewed In the soul's coldest solitude, With that same scene when peaceful love Flings rapture's colour o'er the grove, When mountain, meadow, wood and stream With unalloying glory gleam, And to the spirit's ear and eye Are unison and harmony.

Paradise Lost: Book 02

High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To...

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John Milton

6906 words

Fable

The Two Fellows and the Bear

Never trust a friend who deserts you at a pinch

Universalfriendshiployalty

Aesop

Short16 words

Poetry

The Canterbury Tales. The Franklin's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE.

The Canterbury Tales. The Doctor's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. ["YEA, let that passe," quoth our Host, "as now. Sir Doctor of Physik, I praye you, Tell us a tale of some honest mattere." "It shall be done, if that ye will it hear," Said this Doctor; and his tale gan anon.

The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church (Rome, 15--)

Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity! Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back? Nephews--sons mine ... ah God, I know not! Well, She, men would have to be your mother once, Old Gandolf envied me, so fair she was!

The Canterbury Tales. The Miller's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, That he not said it was a noble story, And worthy to be drawen to memory; And namely the gentles every one.

A Vision of the Sea

'Tis the terror of tempest.

The Canterbury Tales. The Friar's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE.

L'AMITIÉ, Est L'AMOUR Sans Ailes

Why should my anxious breast repine, Because my youth is fled? Days of delight may still be mine; Affection is not dead.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

514 words

Poetry

The Vision of Judgment. by Quevedo Redivivus

SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF "WAT TYLER." "A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word." [_Merchant of Venice_, act iv. 1, lines 218, 336.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

6600 words

Poetry

The Canterbury Tales. The Prioress's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE. "WELL said, by corpus Domini," quoth our Host; "Now longe may'st thou saile by the coast, Thou gentle Master, gentle Marinere. God give the monk a thousand last quad year! fellows, beware of such a jape.

The Canterbury Tales. The Shipman's Tale.

THE PROLOGUE Our Host upon his stirrups stood anon, And saide; "Good men, hearken every one, This was a thrifty tale for the nones.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

3241 words