Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spent in a white robe, with a golden crown on his head listening to music? or who is terrified at the prospect of having a spirit bound by iron chains and tortured with material fire? No one, surely, but we do look forward to having a pure and spotless heart, to being crowned by royalty of character, and we do fear the iron chains of habit and the torture of remorse. What now does this allegory in the Revelation mean? These four beings, rather than beasts, are personifications of four qualities necessary to the acceptable service of God. First...
...true question is of the reality and validity of religious sentiment. All religious forms are necessarily and confessedly symbolic; they are representative of something other than what their mere outer appearance would suggest; thus it is only the spirit of the heart and soul which gives the Church and Liturgy their true signification. Until the symbols are explained, they serve merely to hide their true meaning. Thus the relation of man to the infinite and unknown of life must be understood. Man, living in the known world, can tell nothing of the infinite, but upon coming to the blank wall...
Robert Browning was by nature an optimist, and his large, hearty hopefulness shows in every thing he did. While the hero of Tennyson was the man who followed duty, the hero of Browning followed the wishes of his own heart...
which does not hang upon the mercy of chance or of our likes and dislikes, but which if the last copy of it should perish would still live on, because it had transfused with its own divine vitality the intellect and heart of mankind...
...fall of Rome Italians were beginning to feel an interest in science and philosophy, to look to reason rather than to religion for explanation and for truth. Still the age was in a way a religious age, though the religion was of the intellect rather than of the heart. But while the character of the race was rising from an intellectual point of view it was deteriorating as fast in morals. Every virtue was counterbalanced by some vice. It was at the same time the best and the worst of ages...