Letters and Social AimsHoughton, Mifflin, 1875 - 285 páginas |
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... passing into something else , streaming into something higher ; that matter is not what it appears ; - that chemistry can blow it all into gas . Faraday , the most exact of natural philosophers , taught that when we should arrive at the ...
... passing into something else , streaming into something higher ; that matter is not what it appears ; - that chemistry can blow it all into gas . Faraday , the most exact of natural philosophers , taught that when we should arrive at the ...
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... passing of one element into new forms , the incessant metamorphosis , explains the rank which the imagination holds in our catalogue of mental powers . The imagination is the reader of these forms . The poet accounts all productions and ...
... passing of one element into new forms , the incessant metamorphosis , explains the rank which the imagination holds in our catalogue of mental powers . The imagination is the reader of these forms . The poet accounts all productions and ...
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... pass the brute body , and search the life and reason which cause it to exist ; to see that the object is always flowing away , whilst the spirit or neces- sity which causes it subsists . Its essential mark is that it betrays in every ...
... pass the brute body , and search the life and reason which cause it to exist ; to see that the object is always flowing away , whilst the spirit or neces- sity which causes it subsists . Its essential mark is that it betrays in every ...
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... nothing is exempt . His own body is a fleeing apparition , — his personality as fugitive as the trope he employs . In certain hours we can almost pass our hand through our own body . I think 22 POETRY AND IMAGINATION .
... nothing is exempt . His own body is a fleeing apparition , — his personality as fugitive as the trope he employs . In certain hours we can almost pass our hand through our own body . I think 22 POETRY AND IMAGINATION .
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. pass our hand through our own body . I think the use or value of poetry to be the suggestion it affords of the flux or fugaciousness of the poet . The mind delights in measuring itself thus with matter , with history ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. pass our hand through our own body . I think the use or value of poetry to be the suggestion it affords of the flux or fugaciousness of the poet . The mind delights in measuring itself thus with matter , with history ...
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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.