EssaysJ. Munroe, 1841 - 303 páginas |
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... imagination , but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Jove , a beautiful woman , with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows . The identity of history is equally intrinsic ...
... imagination , but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Jove , a beautiful woman , with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows . The identity of history is equally intrinsic ...
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... Imagination and not of the Fancy , are universal verities . What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Pro- metheus ! Beside its primary value as the first chap- ter of the history of Europe , ( the ...
... Imagination and not of the Fancy , are universal verities . What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Pro- metheus ! Beside its primary value as the first chap- ter of the history of Europe , ( the ...
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... imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dra- matic pieces of the same author , for the reason that it operates a wonderful relief to the mind from ...
... imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dra- matic pieces of the same author , for the reason that it operates a wonderful relief to the mind from ...
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... imagination ? The conscious- ness of a train of great days and victories behind . There they all stand and shed an united light on the advancing actor . He is attended as by a visible es- cort of angels to every man's eye . That is it ...
... imagination ? The conscious- ness of a train of great days and victories behind . There they all stand and shed an united light on the advancing actor . He is attended as by a visible es- cort of angels to every man's eye . That is it ...
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... imagination makes fools of us , plays us false . 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 ...
... imagination makes fools of us , plays us false . 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 ...
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Página 42 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong, what is against it.
Página 35 - 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 68 - Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Página 44 - What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
Página 166 - It makes no difference how many friends I have and what content I can find in conversing with each, if there be one to whom I am not equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly.
Página 40 - Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself.
Página 73 - A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Página 11 - Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Página 37 - 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 43 - Then, aguin, do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor ? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.