Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and LecturesPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 383 páginas |
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... 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 eye - ball ; I am nothing ; I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being ...
... 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 eye - ball ; I am nothing ; I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being ...
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... stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affec- tion . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other , and the exclusive activity of the one , generates the exclusive ac- tivity of the other . There is ...
... stand in the mind of God , and without the colors of affec- tion . The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other , and the exclusive activity of the one , generates the exclusive ac- tivity of the other . There is ...
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... stand- ard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms , the totality of nature ; which the Ital- ians expressed by defining beauty " il piu nell ' uno . " Nothing is quite beautiful alone : nothing but is beautiful in the whole ...
... stand- ard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms , the totality of nature ; which the Ital- ians expressed by defining beauty " il piu nell ' uno . " Nothing is quite beautiful alone : nothing but is beautiful in the whole ...
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... 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 the final cause of Nature . CHAPTER IV . LANGUAGE . LANGUAGE is a third use 22 BEAUTY .
... 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 the final cause of Nature . CHAPTER IV . LANGUAGE . LANGUAGE is a third use 22 BEAUTY .
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... stand for things which are not ; a paper currency is employed , when there is no bullion in the vaults . In due time , the fraud is manifest , and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections . Hundreds of ...
... stand for things which are not ; a paper currency is employed , when there is no bullion in the vaults . In due time , the fraud is manifest , and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections . Hundreds of ...
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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.