EssaysJames Fraser, 1841 - 371 páginas |
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Página ix
... Earth beneath , are profitabler to him , -tell him gradually that these others are but ghosts , which will shortly have to vanish ; that the Life- Fountain these proceeded out of does not vanish ! The words of such a man , what words he ...
... Earth beneath , are profitabler to him , -tell him gradually that these others are but ghosts , which will shortly have to vanish ; that the Life- Fountain these proceeded out of does not vanish ! The words of such a man , what words he ...
Página xii
... Earth is there , with her mountains , rivers , with her mills and farms . Sharp gleams of insight arrest us by their pure intellectuality ; here and there , in heroic rusticism , a tone of modest manfulness , of I mild invincibility ...
... Earth is there , with her mountains , rivers , with her mills and farms . Sharp gleams of insight arrest us by their pure intellectuality ; here and there , in heroic rusticism , a tone of modest manfulness , of I mild invincibility ...
Página 31
... earth , his strength was renewed . Man is the broken giant , and in all his weakness , both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature . The power of music , the power of poetry to unfix , and , as it ...
... earth , his strength was renewed . Man is the broken giant , and in all his weakness , both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature . The power of music , the power of poetry to unfix , and , as it ...
Página 32
... earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing , and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright , heaven - facing speakers . Ah , brother , hold fast to the man ...
... earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing , and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright , heaven - facing speakers . Ah , brother , hold fast to the man ...
Página 39
... earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written ; for what is the use of pretending to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric that we can- not strongly state one fact without ...
... earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written ; for what is the use of pretending to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric that we can- not strongly state one fact without ...
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action affection appear beauty become behold better black event Bonduca Cæsar character circle conversation divine doctrine Epaminondas eternal fact fear feel friendship genius gifts give Greek hand heart heaven highest hour human human voice instinct intel intellect lect less light live look lose man's marriage ment mind moral nature ness never noble OVER-SOUL painted pass passion perception perfect persons Petrarch Phidias Phocion Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry prudence Pyrrhonism racter relations religion rience Rome sculpture secret seek seems seen sense sensual sentiment shew shines society Socrates Sophocles soul speak spirit stand sweet talent teach thee things THOMAS CARLYLE thou thought tion tivated to-day true truth ture uncon universal virtue whilst whole wisdom wise words Xenophon youth Zoroaster
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Página 43 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Página 54 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Página 86 - Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe ; the equinox he knows as little ; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind.
Página 57 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Página 63 - Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house and common day's work; but the things of life are the same to both; the sum total of both is the same. Why all this deference to Alfred and Scanderbeg and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue? As great a stake depends on your private act to-day as followed their public and renowned steps.
Página 69 - When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.
Página 49 - ... interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this.
Página 49 - The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
Página 45 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.
Página 125 - ... seen, and not, as in most men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric of many dates and of no settled character, in which the man is imprisoned. Then there can be enlargement, and the man of to-day scarcely recognizes the man of yesterday. And such should be the outward biography of man in time, a putting off of dead circumstances day by day, as he renews his raiment day by day.