Letters and Social AimsJames R. Osgood, 1875 - 314 páginas Poetry and imagination.--Social aims.--Eloquence.--Resources.--The comic.--Quotation and originality.--Progress of culture.--Persian poetry.--Inspiration.--Greatness.--Immortality. |
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... of all the joys of poets and the joys of saints , the most - im- aginative and abstracted person never makes , with impunity , the least mistake in this particular , - - never tries to kindle his oven with water , nor.
... of all the joys of poets and the joys of saints , the most - im- aginative and abstracted person never makes , with impunity , the least mistake in this particular , - - never tries to kindle his oven with water , nor.
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... persons , — self , even , - are successive maias ( deceptions ) through which Vishnu mocks and instructs the soul . I think Hindoo books the best gymnastics for the mind , as showing treatment . All European libraries might almost be ...
... persons , — self , even , - are successive maias ( deceptions ) through which Vishnu mocks and instructs the soul . I think Hindoo books the best gymnastics for the mind , as showing treatment . All European libraries might almost be ...
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... person , his form , grows larger to our fascinated eyes . And thus begins that deification which all nations have made of their heroes in every kind , saints , poets , lawgivers , and warriors . - Imagination . Whilst common - sense ...
... person , his form , grows larger to our fascinated eyes . And thus begins that deification which all nations have made of their heroes in every kind , saints , poets , lawgivers , and warriors . - Imagination . Whilst common - sense ...
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... person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds , without any at- tempt to draw a moral or affix a meaning . The poet discovers that what men value as sub- stances have a higher value as symbols ; that Na- ture is the immense ...
... person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds , without any at- tempt to draw a moral or affix a meaning . The poet discovers that what men value as sub- stances have a higher value as symbols ; that Na- ture is the immense ...
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... soul " ? Of course , when we describe man as poet , and credit him with the triumphs of the art , we speak of the potential or ideal man , not found now in - any one person . You must go through a city IMAGINATION . 23.
... soul " ? Of course , when we describe man as poet , and credit him with the triumphs of the art , we speak of the potential or ideal man , not found now in - any one person . You must go through a city IMAGINATION . 23.
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Página 253 - 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 257 - Perhaps you can recall a delight like it, which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods in summer, and saw where little flaws of wind whip spots or patches of still water into fleets of ripples, — so sudden, so slight, so spiritual, that it was more like the rippling of the Aurora Borealis at night than any spectacle of day.
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 79 - 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 86 - 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 285 - His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Página 24 - 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 177 - Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone...
Página 293 - As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Página 42 - At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down : at her feet he bowed, he fell : where he bowed, r>2 there he fell down dead.