Essays: Second SeriesPhillips, Sampson, 1855 - 274 páginas |
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action animal appears beauty begin to hope behold character church conversation dæmon debt of honor Delphic Sibyls divine earth equal Eumenides exist experience express eyes fact fancy fashion feel flower force frivolous gay natures genius gentleman gift give hand HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL heart heaven hour individual intellect Julius Cæsar landscape leave live look Lord man's manners Mencius ment mind moral nature never Nick Bottom NOMINALIST numbers object parliament of love party pass persons phrenologists plant Plato Plutarch poet poetry politics poor present Proclus religion rich secret seems selfish sense sentiment society soul speak speech spirit stand stars symbol talent thee things thou shalt thought tion truth ture universe virtue whilst whole wise wonder words write Zoroaster
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Página 21 - So every spirit, as it is more pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Página 159 - The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem ; the shepherd, his lamb ; the farmer, corn ; the miner, a gem ; the sailor, coral and shells ; the painter, his picture ; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.
Página 14 - Son ; but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. These stand respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the love of beauty. These three are equal. Each is that which he is, essentially...
Página 257 - ... except in its beginnings, the able and the good; whether those who have energy will not prefer their chance of superiority and power in the world, to the humble certainties of the association ; whether such 'a retreat does not promise to become an asylum to those who have tried and failed, rather than a field to the strong ; and whether the members will not necessarily be fractions of men, because each finds that he cannot enter it, without some compromise.
Página 34 - These are auxiliaries to the centrifugal tendency of a man, to his passage out into free space, and they help him to escape the custody of that body in which he is pent up, and of that jail-yard of individual relations in which he is enclosed.
Página 147 - As Heaven and Earth are fairer, fairer far Than Chaos and blank Darkness, though once chiefs; And as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth In form and shape compact and beautiful, In will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty, born of us And fated to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness: nor are we Thereby more conquer'd, than by us the rule Of shapeless Chaos.
Página 191 - They say that by electro-magnetism, your salad shall be grown from the seed, whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner : it is a symbol of our modern aims and endeavors, — of our condensation and acceleration of objects : but nothing is gained : nature cannot be cheated : man's life is but seventy salads long, grow they swift or grow they slow.
Página 49 - Dream, Succession swift, and spectral Wrong, Temperament without a tongue, And the inventor of the game Omnipresent without name; Some to see, some to be guessed, They marched from east to west: Little man, least of all, Among the legs of his guardians tall, Walked about with puzzled look : Him by the hand dear Nature took; Dearest Nature, strong and kind, Whispered, "Darling, never mind! To-morrow they will wear another face, The founder thou! these are thy race!
Página 24 - The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connection of thought.
Página 226 - I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books; as if the editor of a journal planted his body of reporters in different parts of the field of action, and relieved some by others from time to time ; but there is such equality and identity both of judgment and point of view in the narrative that it is plainly the work of one all-seeing, all-hearing gentleman.