Isaiah as a Nature-loverTorch Press, 1910 - 52 pages |
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Ahaz Assyria beauty and depth behold Bible birds bittern box tree camels and dromedaries cast its leaves chariots chased roe cities cloud cometh daughters of Moab dromedaries drouth earth Egypt fields fire flowers flying Fords of Arnon forest galleries of Isaiah garden gathered glory goodliness thereof grain grandest grapes green grow hasty fruit higher critics hills horses Isaiah paints John Muir Joppa Jordan Joseph Fort Newton Judea landscape Lebanon Libanus likened lion Lord loves the out-of-doors mind Moab morning NATURE LOVER Ocean Symphony of-doors olive tree Pastoral peace poet prophet raven remnant of Judah righteous remnant river roar rocks rush sacred cedars Sennacherib shadow Shakespeare shore similes splendor spring stone storm stream sublime sweet teil tree tempest tender and pleading terebinth thou Torch Series ture valley verdure vines vineyard Walt Whitman waves willows wind wood are moved young lion
Popular passages
Page 19 - O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea...
Page 50 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 45 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Page 43 - I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground : I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring : And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
Page 47 - They shall not build, and another inhabit: they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Page 43 - But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten : as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves : so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Page 43 - For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. 30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
Page 24 - And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
Page 44 - Thou shalt be -visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
Page 12 - Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear; And struck his finger on the place, And said: Thou ailest here, and here!