Essays, Second SeriesPhillips, Sampson, 1855 - 274 psl. |
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... hour has a chance which the old one had not . This atom of seed is thrown into a new place , not subject to the accidents which destroyed its parent two rods off . She makes a man ; and having brought him to ripe age , she will no ...
... hour has a chance which the old one had not . This atom of seed is thrown into a new place , not subject to the accidents which destroyed its parent two rods off . She makes a man ; and having brought him to ripe age , she will no ...
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... hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants , and by growth of joy on joy . God wills also that thou abdicate a manifold and duplex life , and that thou be content that others speak for thee . Others shall be thy ...
... hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants , and by growth of joy on joy . God wills also that thou abdicate a manifold and duplex life , and that thou be content that others speak for thee . Others shall be thy ...
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... hours . The history of literature , take the net result of Tiraboschi , Warton , or Schle- gel , is a sum of very few ideas , and of very few original tales , all the rest being variation of these . So , in this great society wide lying ...
... hours . The history of literature , take the net result of Tiraboschi , Warton , or Schle- gel , is a sum of very few ideas , and of very few original tales , all the rest being variation of these . So , in this great society wide lying ...
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... hours so serene that we can rel- ish nature or criticism . The more or less depends on structure or temperament . Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung . Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective na ...
... hours so serene that we can rel- ish nature or criticism . The more or less depends on structure or temperament . Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung . Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective na ...
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... hour , that is happiness ; to fill the hour , and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval . We live amid surfaces , and the true art of life is to skate well on them . Under the - oldest mouldiest conventions , a man of native ...
... hour , that is happiness ; to fill the hour , and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval . We live amid surfaces , and the true art of life is to skate well on them . Under the - oldest mouldiest conventions , a man of native ...
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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.