Uncollected Writings: Essays, Addresses, Poems, Reviews and LetterLamb publishing Company, 1912 - 208 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
ALBERT BRISBANE Alcott ALFRED TENNYSON America AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT appear beauty body Boston character CHARLES FOURIER Church dæmons deep delight divine earth Eddystone lighthouse edition eternal faith feel Fourier genius GEORGE BORROW give Greaves Gypsies hand happy harmony heart heaven Hecate highest holy honor hope human intel intellect intelligible James Naylor Jesus John Sterling labor landscape language learned less letter light literary literature live London mind moral mountain nature ness never noble oracle perfect persons Phidias philosophy pleasure poem poet poetic poetry present pure RALPH WALDO EMERSON reform religion rich sacred School seems sense sentiment society song soul speak spirit sweet thee things Thomas Carlyle thou thought tion Titian trees true truth ture universal verses virtue whilst wisdom word writes Zoroaster
Passagens conhecidas
Página 163 - THE -ZINCALI ; or, AN ACCOUNT OF THE GYPSIES OF SPAIN, with an original Collection of their Songs and Poetry, and a copious Dictionary of their Language, by GEORGE BORROW, late Agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Spain, in two volumes.
Página 64 - There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end: its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself.
Página 6 - He who knows the most, he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich and royal man.
Página 59 - The Earth goes on the Earth glittering with gold ; The Earth goes to the Earth sooner than it wold ; The Earth builds on the Earth castles and towers ; The Earth says to the Earth, All this is ours.
Página 45 - They found the verse, not made it. The muse brought it to them. In sculpture, did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece ? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different ? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
Página 119 - In like manner, there is throughout nature something mocking, something that leads us on and on, but arrives nowhere, keeps no faith with us. All promise outruns the performance. We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary ; a round and final success nowhere.
Página 121 - It is the same among the men and women as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. Is it that beauty can never be grasped? in persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible? The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charm of his maiden in her acceptance of him. She was heaven while he pursued her as a star: she cannot be heaven if she stoops to such a one as he.
Página 3 - ... heavenly bodies, and the earth, make a harmony as if nature would indulge her offspring; when in these bleak upper sides of the planet, nothing is to desire that we have heard of the happiest latitudes, and we bask in the shining hours of Florida and Cuba; when everything that has life gives signs of satisfaction, and the cattle that lie on the ground seem to have great and tranquil thoughts.