 | Robert Browning - 1835 - 234 pages
...opening out a way AVhence the imprison 'd splendour may dart forth, Than in effecting entry for the light Supposed to be without. Watch narrowly The demonstration of a truth, its birth, And you shall trace the effluence to its spring And source within us, where broods radiance vast, To be elicited... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 342 pages
...believing that there is " an inmost centre in us all, where truth abides in fulness ;" and that to know, " Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendour may dart forth, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without." Filled with the divine portion... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 406 pages
...which is truth ; A baffling and perverting carnal mesh Blinds it, and makes all error : and, " to know" Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned...demonstration of a truth, its birth, And you trace hack the effluence to its spring And source within us, where broods radiance vast, To be elicited ray... | |
 | 1852 - 302 pages
...and makes all error, and To know Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without. The lines below must have been written in the full flush and pride of youth : — u Make no more giants,... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1861 - 444 pages
...makes all error ; and to know, Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without." But the next chapter will contain my impressions of what constitutes a " truthful mind ;" so, then,... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1897 - 1250 pages
...» • • * * * And, to know. Bather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape. Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without. This is the poetical form of the truth that I believe is pointed to by both phil™ phy and science.... | |
 | Joseph John Murphy - 1873 - 532 pages
...Browning's Paracelsus. " There is an inmost centre in ns all Where truth abides in fulness : and To KNOW Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape, Than in effecting entrance for a light Supposed to be without." Enough has been now said of metaphysical errors, and... | |
 | Association for the Advancement of Women - 1877 - 404 pages
...in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape, Then in effecting entry for a right Supposed to be without. Watch narrowly The demonstration of a truth, its birth, — And you trace bilck the effluence to its spring And source within us, where broods radience vast, To be elicited... | |
 | 1894 - 834 pages
...tastes the beautitude. ' ' To know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape, than in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without. There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men and to be abused by... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1880 - 476 pages
...is as it were given. Diintzer, Erlauterung, s. 285. Compare R. Browning, Paracelsus, pp. 71, 72 : ' Watch narrowly The demonstration of a truth — its...back the effluence to its spring And source within us ; To die case-harden 'd in their ignorance, Whose careless youth had promised what long years Of unremitted... | |
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There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fulness ; and around Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, This perfect, clear perception — which is truth ; A baffling and perverting carnal mesh Blinds it, and makes all error : and,... 
