Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and LecturesPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 383 pages |
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... look at the stars . The rays that come from those heavenly worlds , will separate between him and what he touches . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this de- sign , to give man , in the heavenly bodies , the ...
... look at the stars . The rays that come from those heavenly worlds , will separate between him and what he touches . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this de- sign , to give man , in the heavenly bodies , the ...
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... look out into that silent sea . I seem to partake its rapid transformations : the active enchantment reaches my dust , and I di- late and conspire with the morning wind . How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me ...
... look out into that silent sea . I seem to partake its rapid transformations : the active enchantment reaches my dust , and I di- late and conspire with the morning wind . How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me ...
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... look from the windows of diligence . 2. The presence of a higher , namely , of the spiritual element is essential to its perfection . The high and divine beauty which can be loved without effeminacy , is that which is found in ...
... look from the windows of diligence . 2. The presence of a higher , namely , of the spiritual element is essential to its perfection . The high and divine beauty which can be loved without effeminacy , is that which is found in ...
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... behind and before us , is respectively our image of memory and hope . Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour , and is not reminded of the flux of all things ? Throw a stone into the stream , and the circles 24 LANGUAGE .
... behind and before us , is respectively our image of memory and hope . Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour , and is not reminded of the flux of all things ? Throw a stone into the stream , and the circles 24 LANGUAGE .
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... the unity in variety , which meets us everywhere . All the endless variety of things make an identical impression . Xenophanes complained in his old age , that , look where he would , all things hastened back to Unity . He 40 DISCIPLINE .
... the unity in variety , which meets us everywhere . All the endless variety of things make an identical impression . Xenophanes complained in his old age , that , look where he would , all things hastened back to Unity . He 40 DISCIPLINE .
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.