Letters and Social AimsJ. R. Osgood and Company, 1875 - 285 páginas |
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... believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry , that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic , without a vestige of the old form ; and in animal transformation not less , as in grub and fly , in egg - and bird , in ...
... believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry , that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic , without a vestige of the old form ; and in animal transformation not less , as in grub and fly , in egg - and bird , in ...
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... believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty . He was himself conscious of its help , which made him a prophet among the doctors . From this vision he gave brave hints to the zoologist , the botanist , and the ...
... believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty . He was himself conscious of its help , which made him a prophet among the doctors . From this vision he gave brave hints to the zoologist , the botanist , and the ...
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... believe its possible incarnation . He is the healthy , the wise , the fundamental , the manly man , seer of the secret ; against all the appearance , he sees and reports the truth , namely , that the soul gener- ates matter . And poetry ...
... believe its possible incarnation . He is the healthy , the wise , the fundamental , the manly man , seer of the secret ; against all the appearance , he sees and reports the truth , namely , that the soul gener- ates matter . And poetry ...
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... believe in his poetry . Ho- mer , Milton , Hafiz , Herbert , Swedenborg , Wordsworth , are heartily enamored of their sweet thoughts . More- over , they know that this correspondence of things to thoughts is far deeper than they can ...
... believe in his poetry . Ho- mer , Milton , Hafiz , Herbert , Swedenborg , Wordsworth , are heartily enamored of their sweet thoughts . More- over , they know that this correspondence of things to thoughts is far deeper than they can ...
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... believe nobody knows better than he , that herein he consults his ease , rather than his strength or his desire . He is very well convinced that the great moments of life are those in which his own house , his own body , the tritest and ...
... believe nobody knows better than he , that herein he consults his ease , rather than his strength or his desire . He is very well convinced that the great moments of life are those in which his own house , his own body , the tritest and ...
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appears astronomy believe Ben Jonson better birds Busk CHIG 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 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 RALPH WALDO EMERSON 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 UNIV verse Viasa virtue voice whilst whole William Blake wise words write Yama Zoroaster
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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...