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... reverence , because though always present , they are inaccessible ; but all natural objects make a kindred impression , when the mind is open to their influence . Nature never wears a mean appearance . Neither does the wis- est.
... reverence , because though always present , they are inaccessible ; but all natural objects make a kindred impression , when the mind is open to their influence . Nature never wears a mean appearance . Neither does the wis- est.
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... never be- came a toy to a wise spirit . The flowers , the ani- mals , the mountains , reflected the wisdom of his best hour , as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood . When we speak of nature in this manner , we ...
... never be- came a toy to a wise spirit . The flowers , the ani- mals , the mountains , reflected the wisdom of his best hour , as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood . When we speak of nature in this manner , we ...
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... never tired , so long as we can see far enough . But in other hours , Nature satisfies by its loveli- ness , and without any mixture of corporeal benefit . I see the spectacle of morning from the hill - top over against my house , from ...
... never tired , so long as we can see far enough . But in other hours , Nature satisfies by its loveli- ness , and without any mixture of corporeal benefit . I see the spectacle of morning from the hill - top over against my house , from ...
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... never seen before , and which shall never be seen again . The heavens change every moment , and reflect their glory or gloom on the plains beneath . The state of the crop in the surrounding farms alters the expression of the earth from ...
... never seen before , and which shall never be seen again . The heavens change every moment , and reflect their glory or gloom on the plains beneath . The state of the crop in the surrounding farms alters the expression of the earth from ...
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... never sate on so glorious a seat ! " Charles II . , to intimidate the citizens of London , caused the patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal streets of the city on his way to the scaffold . " But , " his ...
... never sate on so glorious a seat ! " Charles II . , to intimidate the citizens of London , caused the patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal streets of the city on his way to the scaffold . " But , " his ...
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Página 87 - Books are the best of things, well used ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use ? What is the one end, which all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
Página 92 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic i what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
Página 86 - As no airpump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. 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 5 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Página 23 - Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child. Only let his thoughts be of equal scope, and the frame will suit the picture.
Página 31 - ... new imagery ceases to be created, and old words are perverted to stand for things which are not ; a paper currency is employed, when there is no bullion in the vaults.
Página 27 - Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow.
Página 83 - ... things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem. It presently learns that since the dawn of history there has been a constant accumulation and classifying of facts. But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also a law of the human mind?
Página 218 - What is a man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made; a renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature which embosoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, and with every pulsation a new life?
Página 19 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.