Letters and Social AimsJ. R. Osgood and Company, 1875 - 285 páginas |
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... rule and a clock . How long it took to find out what a day was , or what this sun , that makes days ! It cost thousands of years only to make the motion of the earth suspected . Slowly , by comparing thousands of observations , there ...
... rule and a clock . How long it took to find out what a day was , or what this sun , that makes days ! It cost thousands of years only to make the motion of the earth suspected . Slowly , by comparing thousands of observations , there ...
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... rule in eloquence , that the moment the orator loses command of his audience , the audience commands him . So , in poetry , the master rushes to deliver his thought , and the words and images fly to him to express it ; whilst colder ...
... rule in eloquence , that the moment the orator loses command of his audience , the audience commands him . So , in poetry , the master rushes to deliver his thought , and the words and images fly to him to express it ; whilst colder ...
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... rules its religion , poetry , politics , arts , trades , and whole history . A good poem - say Shak- speare's " Macbeth , " or Hamlet , " or the " Tempest " -goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men , * Miss Shepard's ...
... rules its religion , poetry , politics , arts , trades , and whole history . A good poem - say Shak- speare's " Macbeth , " or Hamlet , " or the " Tempest " -goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men , * Miss Shepard's ...
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... rule in the muses ' court , either inspiration or silence , compels the bard to report only his supreme moments . It teaches the enormous force of a few words and in proportion to the inspiration checks loquacity . Much that we call ...
... rule in the muses ' court , either inspiration or silence , compels the bard to report only his supreme moments . It teaches the enormous force of a few words and in proportion to the inspiration checks loquacity . Much that we call ...
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... rules . - The staple figure in novels is the man of aplomb , who sits , among the young aspirants and desperates , quite sure and compact , and , never sharing their affections or debilities , hurls his word like a bullet when occasion ...
... rules . - The staple figure in novels is the man of aplomb , who sits , among the young aspirants and desperates , quite sure and compact , and , never sharing their affections or debilities , hurls his word like a bullet when occasion ...
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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...