Four Great Teachers: John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Robert BrowningG. Allen, 1890 - 140 páginas |
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... eye of every human being willing to raise his or her eyes from the dead pavement to the glorious panorama of the " brave o'erhanging firmament " ! " It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky . It is the part ...
... eye of every human being willing to raise his or her eyes from the dead pavement to the glorious panorama of the " brave o'erhanging firmament " ! " It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky . It is the part ...
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... eyes sealed by vulgar selfishness , and their intelligence crushed by impious care . " The following passage is exquisitely beautiful and true : " A man of genius remains in great part a child , seeing with the large eyes of children ...
... eyes sealed by vulgar selfishness , and their intelligence crushed by impious care . " The following passage is exquisitely beautiful and true : " A man of genius remains in great part a child , seeing with the large eyes of children ...
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... a boat is brought to shore or pushed out into the lake . " Sometimes a friend breaks on this peaceful time , and is met with both hands outstretched , while the gentle look in the clear blue eyes and 32 FOUR GREAT TEACHERS .
... a boat is brought to shore or pushed out into the lake . " Sometimes a friend breaks on this peaceful time , and is met with both hands outstretched , while the gentle look in the clear blue eyes and 32 FOUR GREAT TEACHERS .
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Joseph Forster. while the gentle look in the clear blue eyes and a few low - voiced words give him full assurance ... eye must be cast on a bit of rough ground , red with heather , which , lying just beyond the boundaries of Brantwood ...
Joseph Forster. while the gentle look in the clear blue eyes and a few low - voiced words give him full assurance ... eye must be cast on a bit of rough ground , red with heather , which , lying just beyond the boundaries of Brantwood ...
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... eyes within , and there shall be no more curse , but His servants shall serve Him , and shall see His face . ' 999 6 The following sublime passage , which , I think , sums up all the beauty , intellectual and moral , 34 FOUR GREAT ...
... eyes within , and there shall be no more curse , but His servants shall serve Him , and shall see His face . ' 999 6 The following sublime passage , which , I think , sums up all the beauty , intellectual and moral , 34 FOUR GREAT ...
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Abt Vogler admiration beauty Bride of Lammermoor Browning's Carlyle's character clouds Craigenputtock deep delight Divine earth effeminacy Emerson Encyclopædia endeavour England English eternal Evelyn Hope exquisite eyes father fault feel following passage genius George Dawson give Goethe heart Heart of Midlothian heaven honour human humour infinite John Ruskin Joseph Forster labour lecture letter light live London look man's master melodious mind Molière mother nature never night noble once opinion Paracelsus passion persons Pindar poem poet poetry poor praise Pre-Raphaelitism published quote RALPH WALDO EMERSON Robert Browning sketch Society song soul speak speech spite star Street style talent teacher teaching Thackeray thee things Thomas Carlyle thou thought true truth Tyndall utter Victor Hugo vulgar Warwick Castle women words Wordsworth worship worth writing written wrote young
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Página 115 - And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Página 87 - Standing on the bare ground - my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
Página 125 - And what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence For the fulness of the days? Have we withered or agonized? Why else was the pause prolonged but that singing might issue thence? Why rushed the discords in but that harmony should be prized?
Página 137 - He giveth his beloved sleep — Ps. cxxvii. 2. OF all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is, For gift or grace, surpassing this — ' He giveth His beloved sleep ' ? What would we give to our beloved?
Página 115 - Fear death? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Página 85 - How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 93 - For the ease and pleasure of treading the old road, accepting the fashions, the education, the religion of society, he takes the cross of making his own, and, of course, the selfaccusation, the faint heart, the frequent uncertainty and loss of time, which are the nettles and tangling vines in the way of the self-relying and self-directed; and the state of virtual hostility in which he seems to stand to society, and especially to educated society.
Página 132 - But the time will come, — at last it will, When, Evelyn Hope, what meant (I shall say) In the lower earth, in the years long still, That body and soul so pure and gay ? Why your hair was amber, I shall divine, And your mouth of your own geranium's red — And what you would do with me, in fine, In the new life come in the old one's stead.
Página 15 - And instead of this there is not a moment of any day of our lives when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty that it is quite certain it is all done for us and intended for our perpetual pleasure.
Página 86 - In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.