It focuses on the idea of 'hunger', but in a literal and in a spiritual sense. After wandering in the wilderness for forty days Jesus is starved of both food and the Word of God. Satan, too blind to see any non-literal meanings of the term, offers Christ food and infinite power in order to satiate his hunger, but Jesus, 'hungering' for the Word of God, continually denies him.
It focuses on the idea of 'hunger', but in a literal and in a spiritual sense. After wandering in the wilderness for forty days Jesus is starved of both food and the Word of God. Satan, too blind to see any non-literal meanings of the term, offers Christ food and infinite power in order to satiate his hunger, but Jesus, 'hungering' for the Word of God, continually denies him.
He based his works on a group of fictitious characters who regularly gathered at the old Sudbury Tavern. Lyman Howe was the character featured in The Landlord's Tale, in which Longfellow penned the immortal phrase, "Listen my children and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere".
These pages should meet with any readers inclined, like their writer, "To seek and to admire the veiled truth and solemn beauty of the elder time, they will add their humble testimony to the fact, that whatever be the purpose and tendencies of the time we live in, we are not all unmindful of the better part of our inheritance in this world."
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Comments for "Paradise Regained"
Tales of a Wayside Inn
By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He based his works on a group of fictitious characters who regularly gathered at the old Sudbury Tavern. Lyman Howe was the character featured in The Landlord's Tale, in which Longfellow penned the immortal phrase, "Listen my children and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere".
Michael Angelo
By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
These pages should meet with any readers inclined, like their writer, "To seek and to admire the veiled truth and solemn beauty of the elder time, they will add their humble testimony to the fact, that whatever be the purpose and tendencies of the time we live in, we are not all unmindful of the better part of our inheritance in this world."