Letters and Social AimsHoughton, Mifflin, 1875 - 285 páginas |
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... young scholar does not wish to know what the leopard , the wolf , or Lucia sig- nifies in Dante's Inferno , but prefers to keep their veils on . Mark the delight of an audience in an image . When some familiar truth or fact appears in a ...
... young scholar does not wish to know what the leopard , the wolf , or Lucia sig- nifies in Dante's Inferno , but prefers to keep their veils on . Mark the delight of an audience in an image . When some familiar truth or fact appears in a ...
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... young , that things may obey him . In the ocean , in fire , in the sky , in the forest , he finds facts adequate and as large as he . As his thoughts are deeper than he can fathom , so also are these . " T is easier to read Sanscrit ...
... young , that things may obey him . In the ocean , in fire , in the sky , in the forest , he finds facts adequate and as large as he . As his thoughts are deeper than he can fathom , so also are these . " T is easier to read Sanscrit ...
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... Young people like rhyme , drum - beat , tune , things in pairs and alternatives ; and , in higher degrees , we know the instant power of music upon our temperaments to change our mood , and give us its own : and human passion , seizing ...
... Young people like rhyme , drum - beat , tune , things in pairs and alternatives ; and , in higher degrees , we know the instant power of music upon our temperaments to change our mood , and give us its own : and human passion , seizing ...
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... young aspirants and desperates , quite sure and compact , and , never sharing their affections or debilities , hurls his word like a bullet when occasion re- quires , knows his way , and carries his points . They may scream or applaud ...
... young aspirants and desperates , quite sure and compact , and , never sharing their affections or debilities , hurls his word like a bullet when occasion re- quires , knows his way , and carries his points . They may scream or applaud ...
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... young child ? The babe meets such courting and flattery as only kings receive when adult ; and , trying experiments , and at perfect leisure with these posture - masters and flatterers all day , he throws himself into all the attitudes ...
... young child ? The babe meets such courting and flattery as only kings receive when adult ; and , trying experiments , and at perfect leisure with these posture - masters and flatterers all day , he throws himself into all the attitudes ...
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appears astronomy believe Ben Jonson better birds Busk Charles James Fox Confucius conversation death delight divine earth eloquence eternal existence experience express fact faculties fancy feel Firdousi fire force Gawain genius give Goethe Hafiz hand heard heart heaven hints human imagination immortality inspiration intellect king King Arthur laws learned live look Madame de Staël manners matter ment Merlin metonomy mind moral Nachiketas nation nature never once orator passion perception Persian persons Pindar Plato Plutarch poem poet poetic poetry politics religion rhyme scholar secret seen sense sentiment Shakspeare Simorg sleep society song soul speak speech spirit Swedenborg talent thee things thou thought Timur tion true truth verse Viasa virtue voice whilst whole William Blake wise words write Yama Zoroaster
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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.