Essays, First SeriesJ. Munroe, 1850 - 333 стор. |
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... poets , the ro- mancers , do not in their stateliest pictures in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius - anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ...
... poets , the ro- mancers , do not in their stateliest pictures in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius - anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ...
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... poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For the eye is fastened on the life , and slights the circum stance . Every chemical substance ...
... poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For the eye is fastened on the life , and slights the circum stance . Every chemical substance ...
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... poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it , and , whilst I look at it , its ...
... poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it , and , whilst I look at it , its ...
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... poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship- builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell preëxist in the secreting organs ...
... poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship- builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell preëxist in the secreting organs ...
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... poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confession true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him ...
... poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confession true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him ...
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Сторінка 43 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Сторінка 246 - The Supreme Critic on fhe errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must be, is that great nature in which we rest, as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere ; that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other...
Сторінка 248 - All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison — but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the vast background of our being, in which they lie — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.
Сторінка 294 - The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without knowing how or why ; in short, to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of life is wonderful ; it is by abandonment. The great moments of history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. " A man," said Oliver Cromwell, " never...
Сторінка 312 - God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets test, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth.
Сторінка 39 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Сторінка 108 - I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
Сторінка 277 - The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
Сторінка 249 - God comes to see us without bell: " that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God.
Сторінка 61 - These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are ; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them.