Letters and Social AimsJ. R. Osgood and Company, 1875 - 285 páginas |
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... young scholar does not wish to know what the leopard , the wolf , or Lucia sig- nifies in Dante's Inferno , but prefers to keep their veils on . Mark the delight of an audience in an image . When some familiar truth or fact appears in a ...
... young scholar does not wish to know what the leopard , the wolf , or Lucia sig- nifies in Dante's Inferno , but prefers to keep their veils on . Mark the delight of an audience in an image . When some familiar truth or fact appears in a ...
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... young , that things may obey him . In the ocean , in fire , in the sky , in the forest , he finds facts adequate and as large as he . As his thoughts are deeper than he can fathom , so also are these . " T is easier to read Sanscrit ...
... young , that things may obey him . In the ocean , in fire , in the sky , in the forest , he finds facts adequate and as large as he . As his thoughts are deeper than he can fathom , so also are these . " T is easier to read Sanscrit ...
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... Young people like rhyme , drum - beat , tune , things in pairs and alternatives ; and , in higher degrees , we know the instant power of music upon our temperaments to change our mood , and give us its own : and human passion , seizing ...
... Young people like rhyme , drum - beat , tune , things in pairs and alternatives ; and , in higher degrees , we know the instant power of music upon our temperaments to change our mood , and give us its own : and human passion , seizing ...
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... young aspirants and desperates , quite sure and compact , and , never sharing their affections or debilities , hurls his word like a bullet when occasion re- quires , knows his way , and carries his points . They may scream or applaud ...
... young aspirants and desperates , quite sure and compact , and , never sharing their affections or debilities , hurls his word like a bullet when occasion re- quires , knows his way , and carries his points . They may scream or applaud ...
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... young child ? The babe meets such courting and flattery as only kings receive when adult ; and , trying experiments , and at perfect leisure with these posture - masters and flatterers all day , he throws himself into all the attitudes ...
... young child ? The babe meets such courting and flattery as only kings receive when adult ; and , trying experiments , and at perfect leisure with these posture - masters and flatterers all day , he throws himself into all the attitudes ...
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appears astronomy believe Ben Jonson better birds Busk CHIG Confucius conversation death delight divine earth eloquence eternal existence experience fact faculties fancy feel FMIC 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 perception Persian persons Pindar Plato Plutarch poem poet poetic poetry politics RALPH WALDO EMERSON religion rhyme RSITY scholar secret seen sense sentiment Shakspeare Simorg sleep society song soul speak speech spirit Swedenborg talent thee things thou thought Timur tion true truth UNIVE UNIVE universe 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...