Orations, Lectures and EssaysCharles Griffin, 1866 - 290 páginas |
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... matter gay . Even the corpse hath its own beauty . But beside this general grace diffused over Nature , almost all the individual forms are agree- able to the eye , as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them ; as the acorn ...
... matter gay . Even the corpse hath its own beauty . But beside this general grace diffused over Nature , almost all the individual forms are agree- able to the eye , as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them ; as the acorn ...
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... are metaphors , because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind . The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass . " The visible world and the relation of its parts Language . 33.
... are metaphors , because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind . The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass . " The visible world and the relation of its parts Language . 33.
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... the value of their analogical import . What is true of proverbs , is true of all fables , parables , and allegories . This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet ; but stands in the 34 Nature .
... the value of their analogical import . What is true of proverbs , is true of all fables , parables , and allegories . This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet ; but stands in the 34 Nature .
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... matter is a school for the understanding , -its solidity or resistance , its inertia , its extension , its figure , its divisibility . The understanding adds , divides , combines , measures , and finds everlasting nutri- ment and room ...
... matter is a school for the understanding , -its solidity or resistance , its inertia , its extension , its figure , its divisibility . The understanding adds , divides , combines , measures , and finds everlasting nutri- ment and room ...
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... matter as symbols of it . The sensual man conforms thoughts to things ; the poet conforms things to his thoughts . The one esteems Nature as rooted and fast ; the other , as fluid , and im- presses his being thereon . To him , the ...
... matter as symbols of it . The sensual man conforms thoughts to things ; the poet conforms things to his thoughts . The one esteems Nature as rooted and fast ; the other , as fluid , and im- presses his being thereon . To him , the ...
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