Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and LecturesPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 383 páginas |
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Página 40
... soul . The moral influ- ence of nature upon every individual is that amount of truth which it illustrates to him . Who can estimate this ? Who can guess how much firmness the sea - beaten rock has taught the fisherman ? how much ...
... soul . The moral influ- ence of nature upon every individual is that amount of truth which it illustrates to him . Who can estimate this ? Who can guess how much firmness the sea - beaten rock has taught the fisherman ? how much ...
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... who , answering each to a certain affection of the soul , satisfy our desire on that side ; whom we lack power to put at such focal distance from us , that we can mend or even analyze them . We cannot DISCIPLINE . 43.
... who , answering each to a certain affection of the soul , satisfy our desire on that side ; whom we lack power to put at such focal distance from us , that we can mend or even analyze them . We cannot DISCIPLINE . 43.
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... , whether Orion is up there in heaven , or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul ? The relations of parts and the end of the whole remaining the same , what is the dif ference , whether land and sea interact , and worlds.
... , whether Orion is up there in heaven , or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul ? The relations of parts and the end of the whole remaining the same , what is the dif ference , whether land and sea interact , and worlds.
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... soul . 3. Whilst thus the poet animates nature with his own thoughts , he differs from the philosopher only herein , that the one proposes Beauty as his main end ; the other Truth . But the philos- opher , not less than the poet ...
... soul . 3. Whilst thus the poet animates nature with his own thoughts , he differs from the philosopher only herein , that the one proposes Beauty as his main end ; the other Truth . But the philos- opher , not less than the poet ...
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... soul , and recognised itself in their harmony , that is , seized their law . In physics , when this is attained , the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars , and carries centuries of observation in a single ...
... soul , and recognised itself in their harmony , that is , seized their law . In physics , when this is attained , the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars , and carries centuries of observation in a single ...
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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.