Word: loved
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Those who have had the rare good fortune to meet with this bird in the summer home say that is love - song is a delightful bit of bird melody, sweet and tender but with a wild plaintive ess which makes it peculiarly attractive, though it is delivered in such low tones that the listener must bevery close to the bird to hear...
...exist. but that man's divinity is like God's is also certain. Bearing in mind, the, then, this similarity of nature, we see the force of the example which God sets before its. and to which the Bible so often calls our attention. God has all our virtues, love, patience, forgiveness, joy, and in Him we see the perfection of them all. The Bible, in some of its pictures of Christ's life, show us the keenest pain and suffering. but we see no impatience, no signs of weakness, nothing but infinite love and forbearance...
There was also a mass of anonymous ballads, dealing with battle and murder and love and Nature. These ballads were many of them very remarkable. Through them there comes the ring or freedom and the quiet sincerity of peasant life. They sing of the hardihood of noble Scotland...
...beautiful nature which afterwards wrote itself so finely in his great poem. James was imprisoned when young and while in prison he made a great study of Chaucer and wrote a great deal in imitation of him. His work is full of tenderness and affection and shows his love of nature and his reverence for good. Two humorous poems are ascribed to him but it is not at all certain that he wrote them. Robert Henryson, contemporary with James I, was the first ballad writer...
...held that when God answers a prayer, His will must be changed; and this is opposed to the conception of His changelessness. We answer that His purpose is always the same and that on this very account its outward form of expression must change, even as a father's love for his child, though always remaining the same, will show itself in ever varying ways...