Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and LecturesPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 383 páginas |
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... face to face ; we , through their eyes . Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by revela- tion to us , and not ...
... face to face ; we , through their eyes . Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition , and a religion by revela- tion to us , and not ...
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... face of the world changed , from the era of Noah to that of Napoleon ! The private poor man hath cities , ships , canals , bridges , built for him . the post - office , and the human race errands ; to the book - shop , and the read and ...
... face of the world changed , from the era of Noah to that of Napoleon ! The private poor man hath cities , ships , canals , bridges , built for him . the post - office , and the human race errands ; to the book - shop , and the read and ...
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... face of the world ; some men even to delight . This love of beauty is Taste . Others have the same love in such excess , that , not content with admiring , they seek to embody it in new forms . The creation of beauty is Art . The ...
... face of the world ; some men even to delight . This love of beauty is Taste . Others have the same love in such excess , that , not content with admiring , they seek to embody it in new forms . The creation of beauty is Art . The ...
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... faces of the same All . But beauty in nature is not ulti- mate . It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must stand as a part , and not as yet the last or highest expression of ...
... faces of the same All . But beauty in nature is not ulti- mate . It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty , and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good . It must stand as a part , and not as yet the last or highest expression of ...
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... face to face in a glass . " The visible world and the relation of its parts , is the dial plate of the invisible . " The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics . Thus , " the whole is greater than its " the part ; " " reaction ...
... face to face in a glass . " The visible world and the relation of its parts , is the dial plate of the invisible . " The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics . Thus , " the whole is greater than its " the part ; " " reaction ...
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Página 77 - Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
Página 110 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be an unit; — not to be reckoned one character; — not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or...
Página 32 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine are blanch'd with fear.
Página 106 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven^al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
Página 7 - 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.
Página 99 - ... to have recorded that, which men in crowded cities find true for them also. The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions, — his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, — until he finds that he is the complement -of his hearers ; that they drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature ; the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds, this is the most acceptable, most public, and universally true.
Página 8 - I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
Página 84 - Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.
Página 22 - I call an ultimate end. No reason can' be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
Página 89 - Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that, as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part of his volume.