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more than perhaps any other poet of equal endowment, he is great and surprising in passages and ejaculations. In these he loses himself, as Sir Thomas Browne would say, in an O, altitudo, where his muse is indeed a muse of fire, that can ascend, if not to the highest heaven of invention, yet to the supremest height of impersonal utterance. Then, like Elias, the prophet, "he stands up as fire, and his word burns like a lamp." But too often, when left to his own resources, and to the conscientious performance of the duty laid upon...
...choir sang the following anthems: If ye Love Me.- Tallis; Arise, O Jerusalem.- Oliver King; Who Shall Ascend? -Bridge...
...choir sang the following anthems: What are these that are arrayed in white robes, Sterner; Like as the Hart, Novello; Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord, Bridge...
...from thin eye. Thou nasty look down through its comely Mansard roof, and through its thick walls of brick and mortar. Thou knowest its hideous incompleteness within. There is no floor upon which to walk through its lovely corridors or its magnificent halls, no winding stairs by which to ascend its heights, no plaster to hide its grinning walls, no seats, no bell, no furnace, no musical instrument, no library...
...course you do not know how to reach it, but the accommodating assistants will inform you. You ascend the staircase and find yourself in what appears to be a very bare and uninteresting room. Be not deceived; its treasures like those of the earth, must be sought after in order to be found. There are things which must attract every one's attention, but let me say that it is a veritable paradise for cranks-I mean such cranks as coincollectors, bibliophilists and autographic fiends. How their hands must itch to see lying before their eyes such unattainable treasures...