"What a piece of work is man! how noble in
reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and
moving how express and admirable, in action
how like an angel."
--_Shakespeare, Hamlet 2:2_.
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Locusts and Wild Honey. 65 L.J.
"In our wild Seer, shaggy, unkempt, like a
Baptist living on locusts and wild honey, there
is an untutored energy, a silent, as it were,
unconscious strength, which, except in the
higher walks of literature, must be rare."
--_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, Chapter 3_.
Lord, How Long. 470 S.A.
"O Lord, how long, how long be unavenged?"
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
The Lord is My Fortress. 106 S.A.
"God is our fortress."
--_Shakespeare, I Henry VI 2:-1_.
The Lord Watch between Me and Thee when
We are Absent One from Another. 75 H. T.
"Deal between thee and me."
--_Shakespeare, Macbeth 4:3_.
Lot's Wife. 36 H.T.
"Stiff as Lot's wife."
--_Tennyson, The Princess_.
Love, the Fulfilling of the Law. 416 S.A.
"Charity itself fulfills the law
And who can sever love from charity?"
--_Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost 4:3_.
Mammon of Unrighteousness. 205 L.J.
"Mammon is after him."
--_Abraham Lincoln_.
A Man after His Own Heart. 362 H. T.
"O Saul, it shall be
A Face like my face that receives thee; a Man like to me,
Thou shalt love and be loved by, forever: a Hand like this hand
Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand!"
--_Browning, Saul_.
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Manna in the Wilderness 162 L.J., 192 H.T.
"As manna on my wilderness."
--_Tennyson, Supposed Confessions_.
The Mantle of Elijah. 134 T.J.
"Tennyson rising in a heavenly chariot out of
the temple of song, forgot to cast his mantle
upon some waiting Elisha, but carried the divine
garment into the realm beyond the clouds."
--_Newell Dwight Hillis, Great Books as Life Teachers_.
The Mark of Cain. 23 T.J.
"He answered not but with a sudden hand
Made bare his branded and ensanguined brow,
Which was like Cain's or Christ's--oh! that it should be so!"
--_Shelley, Adonais_.
Mess of Pottage. 60 H.T.
"A hungry imposter practising for a mess of pottage."
--_Carlyle_.
The Money-Changers in the Temple. 237 L.J.
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