The Golden Vase: A Gift for the YoungB.B. Mussey, 1927 - 224 páginas |
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... seems never to have been formally worked out . We have , however , a clue to it in the seventh chapter of the " Nature " treatise ; and again in the eighth , where para- phrasing ( it has been supposed ) some utterances of that hapless ...
... seems never to have been formally worked out . We have , however , a clue to it in the seventh chapter of the " Nature " treatise ; and again in the eighth , where para- phrasing ( it has been supposed ) some utterances of that hapless ...
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... seems one of the best . No doubt to a man of sense travel offers advantages . As many languages as he has , as many friends , as many arts and trades , so many times is he a A foreign country is a point of comparison wherefrom to judge ...
... seems one of the best . No doubt to a man of sense travel offers advantages . As many languages as he has , as many friends , as many arts and trades , so many times is he a A foreign country is a point of comparison wherefrom to judge ...
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... seems partly owing to the eye itself . The eye is the best of artists . By the mutual action of its structure and of the laws of light , perspective is produced , which integrates every mass of objects , of what character soever , into ...
... seems partly owing to the eye itself . The eye is the best of artists . By the mutual action of its structure and of the laws of light , perspective is produced , which integrates every mass of objects , of what character soever , into ...
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... seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty . To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company , nature is medicinal and restores their tone . The tradesman , the attorney , comes out of the din and craft ...
... seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty . To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company , nature is medicinal and restores their tone . The tradesman , the attorney , comes out of the din and craft ...
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... says , the multitude imagined they saw liberty and virtue sitting by his side . " In private places , among sordid objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at 66 once to draw to itself the sky as its temple Nature 9.
... says , the multitude imagined they saw liberty and virtue sitting by his side . " In private places , among sordid objects , an act of truth or heroism seems at 66 once to draw to itself the sky as its temple Nature 9.
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The Golden Vase: Gift for the Young (Classic Reprint) Hannah Flagg Gould Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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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
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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.