Guesses at TruthMacmillan, 1867 - 576 páginas |
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Página 56
... mankind must have transmigrated into his . What then ! Is it essential to poetry , that there should be nothing personal and individual in it ; nothing indi- cative of the poet's own feelings ? nothing drawn from his own experience ...
... mankind must have transmigrated into his . What then ! Is it essential to poetry , that there should be nothing personal and individual in it ; nothing indi- cative of the poet's own feelings ? nothing drawn from his own experience ...
Página 58
... mankind has reacht in the great year of thought , he has opened the watch and enabled us to perceive the springs and the wheels . Here , to make my peace with anecdote - mongers , let me tell one relating to the origin of the finest ...
... mankind has reacht in the great year of thought , he has opened the watch and enabled us to perceive the springs and the wheels . Here , to make my peace with anecdote - mongers , let me tell one relating to the origin of the finest ...
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... mankind . It is a common opinion with these exoteric philosophers , that the invention of printing was the chief cause of the Reformation , that the invention of the compass brought about the discovery of America , and that the vast ...
... mankind . It is a common opinion with these exoteric philosophers , that the invention of printing was the chief cause of the Reformation , that the invention of the compass brought about the discovery of America , and that the vast ...
Página 61
... mankind . The differ- ence between civilized and savage life , he had just said , non solum , non coelum , non corpora , sed artes prae- stant . " In other words , the difference lies , not in any material objects themselves , but in ...
... mankind . The differ- ence between civilized and savage life , he had just said , non solum , non coelum , non corpora , sed artes prae- stant . " In other words , the difference lies , not in any material objects themselves , but in ...
Página 63
... mankind . At the fit time the fit instrument shews itself . If it comes before its time , it is still - born : man knows not what to do with it ; and it wastes away . But when the mind and heart and spirit of men begin to teem with new ...
... mankind . At the fit time the fit instrument shews itself . If it comes before its time , it is still - born : man knows not what to do with it ; and it wastes away . But when the mind and heart and spirit of men begin to teem with new ...
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admiration beauty become better blessed body called character Christian Church Cicero Coleridge deemed Demosthenes Diocletian discern duty earth effect England English epic poetry errour evil expression eyes faith fancy feelings former genius give Goethe Greece Greek ground hand heart heaven Hence Homer human nature idea Iliad imagination individual instance intellectual Italy Julius Charles Hare knowledge labour language Laodamia least less light living look man's mankind manner means Medea merely Milton mind modern moral nation never object ochlocracy outward passage passions perfect perhaps persons philosophy Plato poem poet poetry principle racter reason reflexion regard religion Roman Rome seems seldom Sermons Shakspeare shew sight Socrates sophism Sophocles soul speaking spirit stand style sure Tacitus things thou thought Thucydides tion true truth understanding unity utterance whole wisdom words Wordsworth writers
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Página 251 - From man or angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire ; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to mode!
Página 348 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.
Página 235 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Página 86 - WE, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God...
Página 211 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Página 372 - ... even that of the loftiest and seemingly that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science, and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive, causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable not only for every word, but for the position of every word...
Página 23 - It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature : for take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on, when he finds himself maintained by a man ; who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura...
Página 484 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Página 41 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Página 368 - ... forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance...