Letters and Social AimsJ. R. Osgood and Company, 1875 - 285 páginas |
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... reason . " Seas , forests , metals , diamonds , and fossils interest the eye , but ' t is only with some preparatory or predicting charm . Their value to the intellect appears only when I hear their meaning made plain in the spiritual ...
... reason . " Seas , forests , metals , diamonds , and fossils interest the eye , but ' t is only with some preparatory or predicting charm . Their value to the intellect appears only when I hear their meaning made plain in the spiritual ...
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... reason which cause it to exist ; to see that the object is always flowing away , whilst the spirit or neces- sity which causes it subsists . Its essential mark is that it betrays in every word instant activity of mind , shown in new ...
... reason which cause it to exist ; to see that the object is always flowing away , whilst the spirit or neces- sity which causes it subsists . Its essential mark is that it betrays in every word instant activity of mind , shown in new ...
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... reason , till he sees it to have a purpose and beauty , and to be related to astronomy and history , and the eternal order of the world . Then the dry twig blossoms in his hand . He is calmed and elevated . " " The use of " occasional ...
... reason , till he sees it to have a purpose and beauty , and to be related to astronomy and history , and the eternal order of the world . Then the dry twig blossoms in his hand . He is calmed and elevated . " " The use of " occasional ...
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... are founded . And this perception has at once its moral sequence . Ben Jonson said , “ The principal end of poetry is to inform men in the just reason of living . ” - -- Creation . But there is a third step which VERACITY . 35.
... are founded . And this perception has at once its moral sequence . Ben Jonson said , “ The principal end of poetry is to inform men in the just reason of living . ” - -- Creation . But there is a third step which VERACITY . 35.
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... reason we set so high a value on any poetry often on a line or a phrase as on a poem - is , that it is a new work of Nature , as a man is . It must be as new as foam and as old as the rock . But a new verse comes - - as once in a ...
... reason we set so high a value on any poetry often on a line or a phrase as on a poem - is , that it is a new work of Nature , as a man is . It must be as new as foam and as old as the rock . But a new verse comes - - as once in a ...
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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...