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Traditional Illustrations

The orthodox, historical consensus of biblical interpretation.

Key question: “What is the most widely accepted and historically grounded understanding of this text?”

25,889 sermon illustrations through the Traditional lens

Poetry

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.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

42661 words

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Fable

The Fox Without a Tail

Distrust interested advice

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Aesop

Short8 words

Poetry

Cain: A Mystery

SCENE I.--_The Land without Paradise.--Time, Sunrise_. ADAM, EVE, CAIN, ABEL, ADAH, ZILLAH, _offering a Sacrifice_. God, the Eternal! All-wise!-- Who out of darkness on the deep didst make Light on the waters with a word--All Hail! with returning light--All Hail!

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

21445 words

Poetry

A Hymn Of Heavenly Beauty

Rapt with the rage of mine own ravish'd thought, Through contemplation of those goodly sights, And glorious images in heaven wrought, Whose wondrous beauty, breathing sweet delights Do kindle love in high-conceited sprights; I fain to tell the things that...

The Cyclops

A SATYRIC DRAMA TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF EURIPIDES. CHORUS OF SATYRS. THE CYCLOPS. SILENUS: O Bacchus, what a world of toil, both now And ere these limbs were overworn with age, Have I endured for thee!

To Think of Time.

1 TO think of time—of all that retrospection! To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! Have you guess’d you yourself would not continue? Have you dreaded these earth-beetles? Have you fear’d the future would be nothing to you?

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Walt Whitman

1605 words

Fable

The Miser and His Gold

Wealth unused might as well not exist

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Aesop

Short12 words

Poetry

To the Earl of Clare

Tu semper amoris Sis memor, et cari comitis ne abscedat imago. 'Argonaut', iv. Friend of my youth! when young we rov'd, Like striplings, mutually belov'd, With Friendship's purest glow; The bliss, which wing'd those rosy hours, Was such as Pleasure...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

588 words

Poetry

The Changeling ( From The Tent on the Beach )

FOR the fairest maid in Hampton They needed not to search, Who saw young Anna favor Come walking into church,-- Or bringing from the meadows, At set of harvest-day, The frolic of the blackbirds, The sweetness of the hay.

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John Greenleaf Whittier

545 words

Poetry

To Edward Noel Long, Esq

"Nil ego contulerim jucundo sanus amico."--HORACE.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

648 words

Poetry

59. Death and Dr. Hornbook

SOME books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn’d: Ev’n ministers they hae been kenn’d, In holy rapture, A rousing whid at times to vend, And nail’t wi’ Scripture.

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Robert Burns

1922 words

Fable

The Four Oxen and the Lion

United we stand, divided we fall

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Aesop

Short12 words

Poetry

Lara.

CANTO THE FIRST.

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

8751 words

Fable

The Mountains in Labour

Much outcry, little outcome

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Aesop

Short8 words

Poetry

TO A CHILD

Dear child! how radiant on thy mother's knee, With merry-making eyes and jocund smiles, Thou gazest at the painted tiles, Whose figures grace, With many a grotesque form and face. The ancient chimney of thy nursery!

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

923 words

Poetry

Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets

1 Lo dм che han detto a' dolci amici addio. - Dante Amor, con quanto sforzo oggi mi vinci!

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Christina Rossetti

1700 words

Fable

The Fox, the Cock, and the Dog

Cunning often outwits itself

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Aesop

Short11 words

Prayer

Abba Anthony's Prayer

Eastern Orthodox prayer by Abba Anthony

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Abba Anthony

Short14 words

Fable

The Serpent and the File

It is useless attacking the insensible

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Aesop

Short11 words

Poetry

Satire IV.

THE SATIRES OF DR JOHN DONNE, DEAN OF ST PAUL'S, VERSIFIED. Well, if it be my time to quit the stage, Adieu to all the follies of the age! I die in charity with fool and knave, Secure of peace at least beyond the grave.

Passage to India.

1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong, light works of engineers, Our modern wonders, (the antique ponderous Seven outvied,) In the Old World, the east, the Suez canal, The New by its mighty...

The Heretic's Tragedy: A Middle-Age Interlude

The Lord, we look to once for all, Is the Lord we should look at, all at once: He knows not to vary, saith Saint Paul, Nor the shadow of turning, for the nonce. See him no other than as he is!

A Very Mournful Ballad on the Siege and Conquest of Alhama

The Moorish King rides up and down. Through Granada's royal town: From Elvira's gates to those Of Bivarambla on he goes. Woe is me, Alhama! Letters to the Monarch tell How Alhama's city fell: In the fire the scroll he...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

994 words

Poetry

Werner: First Draft

SCENE I.--_A ruinous chateau on the Silesian frontier of Bohemia_. THE storm is at it's height--how the wind howls, Like an unearthly voice, through these lone chambers! And the rain patters on the flapping casement Which quivers in it's frame--the...

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

4215 words