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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... the dullest brain in ferment ; our little sir , from his first tottering steps , as soon as he can crow , does not like to be practised upon , suspects that some one is ― - " doing " him , and , at this alarm INTRODUCTORY . 5.
... the dullest brain in ferment ; our little sir , from his first tottering steps , as soon as he can crow , does not like to be practised upon , suspects that some one is ― - " doing " him , and , at this alarm INTRODUCTORY . 5.
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... soon as once thought begins , it refuses to remember whose brain it be- longs to , what country , tradition , or religion , — and goes whirling off - swim we merrily - in a direction self - chosen , by law of thought , and not by law of ...
... soon as once thought begins , it refuses to remember whose brain it be- longs to , what country , tradition , or religion , — and goes whirling off - swim we merrily - in a direction self - chosen , by law of thought , and not by law of ...
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... soon as a man masters a principle , and sees his facts in relation to it , fields , waters , skies , offer to clothe his thoughts in images . Then all men understand him : Parthian , Mede , Chi- nese , Spaniard , and Indian hear their ...
... soon as a man masters a principle , and sees his facts in relation to it , fields , waters , skies , offer to clothe his thoughts in images . Then all men understand him : Parthian , Mede , Chi- nese , Spaniard , and Indian hear their ...
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... soon as this soul is released a little ' from its passion , and at leisure plays with the resemblances and types for amusement , and not for its moral end , we call its action Fancy . Lear , mad with his affliction , thinks every man ...
... soon as this soul is released a little ' from its passion , and at leisure plays with the resemblances and types for amusement , and not for its moral end , we call its action Fancy . Lear , mad with his affliction , thinks every man ...
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... soon as it has received existence acts independently of the master's impulse , so the poet creates his persons , and then watches and relates what they do and say . Such creation is poetry , in the literal sense of the term , and its ...
... soon as it has received existence acts independently of the master's impulse , so the poet creates his persons , and then watches and relates what they do and say . Such creation is poetry , in the literal sense of the term , and its ...
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Æsop appears astronomy believe Ben Jonson better birds Busk character Charles James Fox Confucius conversation death delight divine earth eloquence eternal existence experience express fact faculty fancy feel force Gawain genius give Goethe Hafiz hand heard heart heaven hints human imagination immortality inspiration intel intellect king King Arthur laws learned live look Madame de Staël manners matter ment Merlin metonomy mind moral Nachiketas nations nature never numbers once orator perception Persian persons Pindar Plato Plutarch poem poet 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 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.