Letters and Social AimsHoughton, Mifflin, 1875 - 285 páginas |
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... knowledge of these than the savant . We use semblances of logic until experience puts us in possession of real logic . The poet knows the missing link by the joy it gives . The poet gives us the eminent experiences only , a god stepping ...
... knowledge of these than the savant . We use semblances of logic until experience puts us in possession of real logic . The poet knows the missing link by the joy it gives . The poet gives us the eminent experiences only , a god stepping ...
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... knowledge ; when mind acted on it as knowledge , it was thought . This metonomy , or seeing the same sense in things so diverse , gives a pure pleasure . Every one of a million times we find a charm in the metamorphosis . It makes us ...
... knowledge ; when mind acted on it as knowledge , it was thought . This metonomy , or seeing the same sense in things so diverse , gives a pure pleasure . Every one of a million times we find a charm in the metamorphosis . It makes us ...
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... balance of the world is kept , and dewdrop and haze and the pencil of light are as long - lived as chaos and darkness . Our science is always abreast of our self - knowledge . - Poetry begins , or all becomes poetry , when CREATION . 37.
... balance of the world is kept , and dewdrop and haze and the pencil of light are as long - lived as chaos and darkness . Our science is always abreast of our self - knowledge . - Poetry begins , or all becomes poetry , when CREATION . 37.
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... knowledge ; we want virtue ; a more inward existence to read the history of each other . Welfare requires one or two companions of intelligence , probity , and grace , to wear out life with , - persons with whom we can speak a few ...
... knowledge ; we want virtue ; a more inward existence to read the history of each other . Welfare requires one or two companions of intelligence , probity , and grace , to wear out life with , - persons with whom we can speak a few ...
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... knowledge , and thorough good - meaning abide , - doubles the value of life . It is this that justifies to each the jealousy with which the doors are kept . Do not look sourly at the set or the club which does not choose you . Every ...
... knowledge , and thorough good - meaning abide , - doubles the value of life . It is this that justifies to each the jealousy with which the doors are kept . Do not look sourly at the set or the club which does not choose you . Every ...
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Página 229 - And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I live and write; I once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing: O my only light, It cannot be That I am he, On whom thy tempests fell all night.
Página 42 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Página 42 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Página 74 - I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that " the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
Página 80 - Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Página 43 - Good, to whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance, Would send a glistering guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unassail'd. Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err, there does a sable cloud •Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove...
Página 233 - Did you never observe (while rocking winds are piping loud) that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an ^Eolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit.
Página 258 - His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Página 27 - A Spirit and a Vision are not, as the modern philosophy supposes, a cloudy vapour, or a nothing: they are organized and minutely articulated beyond all that the mortal and perishing nature can produce. He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
Página 154 - Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.