The Immortal LifeLockwood, Brooks,, 1880 - 255 páginas |
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act of Faith animal become blood body capacity cerebral Comedy condition conscience consciousness correspond created creation creatures death Deity derived divine Divine Comedy doctrine dread earth elements emotions empirical method epoch escape eternal evil evolution existence expect experience eyes facts faculty feeling finite force forms functions furnish harmony heart heaven Hell Hereafter human brain Iambe idea ideal imagination immortal infinite infusoria insects instinct intel intellectual intelligence invented invisible JOHN WEISS live man's mankind material materialist matter mental ments metempsychosis method mind moral sense Nature never Nirvana notion object observation organs origin passions personal continuance phrase physical planet race religion result scientific method Second Coming sensations smiles society soul soul-substance sphere spiritual structure suppose surmise tears theology things thought tion tragedy truth uncon unity universal suffrage universe Uranus vibrations wait whole word
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Página 181 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, — past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Página 50 - And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Página 148 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Página 50 - FEAR death? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Página 85 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
Página 91 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.
Página 168 - O! FOR my sake do you with Fortune chide The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Página 81 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 81 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.