Literary EssaysMacmillan, 1888 - 490 páginas |
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... called presence of mind in combination with a keen knowledge of men ; -I mean that absolute and com- plete adequacy to every emergency which gave Napoleon his sang froid at the very turning - point of his great battles , and which in ...
... called presence of mind in combination with a keen knowledge of men ; -I mean that absolute and com- plete adequacy to every emergency which gave Napoleon his sang froid at the very turning - point of his great battles , and which in ...
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... called the " dæmonic " element in human affairs - the element that fascinates men by at once standing out clear and quite independent of their support , and yet indicating the power to read them off , and detect for them their own needs ...
... called the " dæmonic " element in human affairs - the element that fascinates men by at once standing out clear and quite independent of their support , and yet indicating the power to read them off , and detect for them their own needs ...
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... called the garden - room . Even after the lapse of sixty years , the many- coloured picture of these gardens , the solitary figures of careful neighbours stooping to tend their flowers , the groups of skittle - players , and the bands ...
... called the garden - room . Even after the lapse of sixty years , the many- coloured picture of these gardens , the solitary figures of careful neighbours stooping to tend their flowers , the groups of skittle - players , and the bands ...
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... constitutionally deficient in that element of mind which shame and reverence have in common ( aidús , as the Greeks called it ) ; and during the French occupation of Frankfort , at a most suscept- 22 GOETHE AND HIS INFLUENCE.
... constitutionally deficient in that element of mind which shame and reverence have in common ( aidús , as the Greeks called it ) ; and during the French occupation of Frankfort , at a most suscept- 22 GOETHE AND HIS INFLUENCE.
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... a satire upon the Hegelian practice of deducing everything out of " the pure nothing " by what may be called the tripartite cork - screw philosophy , which that he has attained the deepest point of all , I 25 GOETHE AND HIS INFLUENCE.
... a satire upon the Hegelian practice of deducing everything out of " the pure nothing " by what may be called the tripartite cork - screw philosophy , which that he has attained the deepest point of all , I 25 GOETHE AND HIS INFLUENCE.
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Página 98 - Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
Página 99 - On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
Página 273 - For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.
Página 131 - The floating Clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Página 118 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death...
Página 266 - And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of « cloud, to lead them the way ; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light ; to go by day and night : He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
Página 322 - He found us when the age had bound Our souls in its benumbing round; He spoke, and loosed our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth...
Página 184 - To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Página 262 - Curse ye Meroz,' said the angel of the Lord, 'Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; Because they came not to the help of the Lord, To the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Página 151 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.