Essays, Second SeriesPhillips, Sampson, 1855 - 274 psl. |
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... ages such as say and do not , overlooking the fact , that some men , namely , poets , are natural sayers , sent into the world to the end of expression , and confounds them with those whose province is ac- tion , but who quit it to ...
... ages such as say and do not , overlooking the fact , that some men , namely , poets , are natural sayers , sent into the world to the end of expression , and confounds them with those whose province is ac- tion , but who quit it to ...
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... ; he will tell us how it was with him , and all men will be the richer in his for- tune . For the experience of each new age requires a new confession , and the world seems always - waiting for its poet . I remember , when THE POET . 15.
... ; he will tell us how it was with him , and all men will be the richer in his for- tune . For the experience of each new age requires a new confession , and the world seems always - waiting for its poet . I remember , when THE POET . 15.
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... age , she will no longer run the risk of losing this wonder at a blow , but she de- taches from him a new self , that the kind may be safe from accidents to which the individual is ex- posed . So when the soul of the poet has come to ...
... age , she will no longer run the risk of losing this wonder at a blow , but she de- taches from him a new self , that the kind may be safe from accidents to which the individual is ex- posed . So when the soul of the poet has come to ...
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... age ; " when Pro- clus calls the universe the statue of the intellect ; when Chaucer , in his praise of Gentilesse , ' com- pares good blood in mean condition to fire , which , though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the ...
... age ; " when Pro- clus calls the universe the statue of the intellect ; when Chaucer , in his praise of Gentilesse , ' com- pares good blood in mean condition to fire , which , though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the ...
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... solid , and , at last , nothing but an excess of the organ of language . Swedenborg , of all men in the recent ages , stands eminently for the translator of nature into thought . 4 I do not know the man in history to 38 ESSAY I.
... solid , and , at last , nothing but an excess of the organ of language . Swedenborg , of all men in the recent ages , stands eminently for the translator of nature into thought . 4 I do not know the man in history to 38 ESSAY I.
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47 psl. - The lords of life, the lords of life I saw them pass, In their own guise, Like and unlike, Portly and grim, Use and Surprise, Surface and 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,...
249 psl. - We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
41 psl. - Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, methodism and unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy, and the temple of Delphos, and are as swiftly passing away.
19 psl. - So every spirit, as it is most 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 : I For soul is form, and doth the body make.
31 psl. - ... that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power, on which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him...
13 psl. - ... operation, and effect; or, more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune; or, theologically, the Father, the Spirit, and the 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.
25 psl. - As the eyes of Lyncasus were said to see through the earth, so the poet turns the world to glass, and shows us all things in their right series and procession. For, through that better perception, he stands one step nearer to things, and sees the flowing or metamorphosis...
32 psl. - 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.
19 psl. - Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole and in every part.
74 psl. - I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.