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Which understood.
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How unpleasant conceit can become. The joy of seeing the Saviour was stolen because they gained it in the absence of the sun!
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A trisyllable.
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His garland.
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The "sunny seed" in their hearts.
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From tine or tind, to set on fire. Hence tinder.
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The body of Jesus.
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Mark i. 35; Luke xxi. 37. The word time must be associated both with progress and prayer—his walking-time and prayer-time.
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This is an allusion to the sphere-music: the great heavens is a clock whose hours are those when Jesus retires to his Father; and to these hours the sphere-music gives the chime.
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He continues his poetic synonyms for the night.
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"Behold I stand at the door and knock."
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A monosyllable.
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Often used for chambers.
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"The creation looks for the light, thy shadow?" Or, "The light looks for thy shadow, the sun"?
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Perforce: of necessity.
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He does not mean his fellows, but his bodily nature.
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Savourest?
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The first I ever saw of its hymns was on a broad-sheet of Christmas Carols, with coloured pictures, printed in Seven Dials.
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They passed through twenty editions, not to mention one lately published (by Daniel Sedgwick, of 81, Sun-street, Bishopsgate, a man who, concerning hymns and their writers, knows more than any other man I have met), from which, carefully edited, I have gathered all my information, although I had known the book itself for many years.
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The animal spirits of the old physiologists.
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In the following five lines I have adopted the reading of the first edition, which, although a little florid, I prefer to the scanty two lines of the later.
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False in feeling, nor like God at all, although a ready pagan representation of him. There is much of the pagan left in many Christians—poets too.
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Insisting—persistent.
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Great cloudy ridges, one rising above the other, like a grand stair up to the heavens. See Wordsworth's note.
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The mountain.