The Golden Vase: A Gift for the YoungB.B. Mussey, 1927 - 224 páginas |
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... character soever , into a well - coloured and shaded globe , so that where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting , the land- scape which they compose is round and symmetrical . And as the eye is the best composer , so light is ...
... character soever , into a well - coloured and shaded globe , so that where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting , the land- scape which they compose is round and symmetrical . And as the eye is the best composer , so light is ...
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... character and happy genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , -the persons , the opinions , and the day , and nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another aspect under which the beauty of ...
... character and happy genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , -the persons , the opinions , and the day , and nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another aspect under which the beauty of ...
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... character , that is , upon his love of truth , and his desire to communicate it without loss . The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language . When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by ...
... character , that is , upon his love of truth , and his desire to communicate it without loss . The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language . When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by ...
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... character and fortune of the individual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the under- standing ; for example , in the perception of differences . Therefore is Space , and therefore Time , that man may know that ...
... character and fortune of the individual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the under- standing ; for example , in the perception of differences . Therefore is Space , and therefore Time , that man may know that ...
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... character so penetrates the bone and marrow of nature , as to seem the end for which it was made . Whatever private purpose is answered by any member or part , this is its public and universal function , and is never omitted . Nothing ...
... character so penetrates the bone and marrow of nature , as to seem the end for which it was made . Whatever private purpose is answered by any member or part , this is its public and universal function , and is never omitted . Nothing ...
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Términos y frases comunes
action Æsop animal beauty behold believe better body born character church culture dæmon divine effect England existence expression fact faith fancy Fate feel force genius give Goethe grace hands heart heaven hero hour human intellect Julius Cæsar labour laws limp band live look man's manners matter means ment Michael Angelo Milton mind moral mountains nature never objects opinion passion perception perfect Pericles persons Pindar plants Plato platonic love Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry quadruped race religion rich Rome scholar secret seems seen sense Shakespeare Sistine Chapel Smectymnuus society solitude soul speak spirit stand stars sublime talent things thou thought tion truth universe Vasari virtue Walter Savage Landor whilst whole wise words Xenophanes youth
Pasajes populares
Página 4 - 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 circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
Página 80 - But to return to our own institute: besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be. won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Página 85 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Página 82 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Página 79 - I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 26 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Página 70 - I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore.
Página 14 - A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, will find that a material image more or less luminous arises in his mind, contemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought. Hence, good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories. This imagery is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind. It is proper creation. It is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made.
Página 82 - ... true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth ; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.
Página 283 - HE who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.