Letters and Social AimsJ. R. Osgood and Company, 1875 - 285 páginas |
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... become marble , woe to the antiques ! " A happy symbol is a sort of evidence that your thought is just . I had rather have a good symbol of my thought , or a good analogy , than the suffrage of Kant or Plato . If you agree with me , or ...
... become marble , woe to the antiques ! " A happy symbol is a sort of evidence that your thought is just . I had rather have a good symbol of my thought , or a good analogy , than the suffrage of Kant or Plato . If you agree with me , or ...
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... become mute and near- sighted . What is motion ? what is beauty ? what is matter ? what is life ? what is force ? Push them hard , and they will not be loquacious . They will come to Plato , Proclus , and Swedenborg . The invisible and ...
... become mute and near- sighted . What is motion ? what is beauty ? what is matter ? what is life ? what is force ? Push them hard , and they will not be loquacious . They will come to Plato , Proclus , and Swedenborg . The invisible and ...
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... becomes fanciful with Tom , playing with the superficial resemblances of ob- jects . Bunyan , in pain for his soul , wrote " Pilgrim's Progress " ; Quarles , after he was quite cool , wrote " Em- blems . " Imagination is central ; fancy ...
... becomes fanciful with Tom , playing with the superficial resemblances of ob- jects . Bunyan , in pain for his soul , wrote " Pilgrim's Progress " ; Quarles , after he was quite cool , wrote " Em- blems . " Imagination is central ; fancy ...
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... The 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 .
... The 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 .
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. ― Poetry begins , or all becomes poetry , when we look from the centre outward , and are using all as if the mind made it . That only can we see which we are , and which we make . The weaver sees gingham ; the broker ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. ― Poetry begins , or all becomes poetry , when we look from the centre outward , and are using all as if the mind made it . That only can we see which we are , and which we make . The weaver sees gingham ; the broker ...
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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 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 48 - Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls...
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 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 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 155 - Truth is always present: it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. But the moment there is the purpose of display, the fraud is exposed. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others, as it is to invent. Always some steep transition, some sudden alteration of temperature, or of point of view, betrays the foreign interpolation.
Página 152 - In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way, and, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast, as we say; but if I like the gay equipage so well as to go out of my road, I had better have gone afoot.
Página 134 - Into his hands, or hang, th' offender : But they maturely having weigh'd, They had no more but him o...