Modern Poet Prophets: Essays Critical and InterpretativeR. Clarke Company, 1897 - 343 páginas Reprint of the 1897 ed. published by R. Clarke Co., Cincinnati. |
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... References by page are to the Riverside edition ( vol . iii ) . † For our slowness to grasp such a doctrine of suffering , com- pare Authorized version with Revised version of the New Testa- ment in Matt . x . , 18 ; Mk . xiii . , 9 ...
... References by page are to the Riverside edition ( vol . iii ) . † For our slowness to grasp such a doctrine of suffering , com- pare Authorized version with Revised version of the New Testa- ment in Matt . x . , 18 ; Mk . xiii . , 9 ...
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... reference to any re- ward it may bring besides . Indeed , all goods result- ing secondarily from virtue as a means , are secondary , adventitious , and would not be eagerly expected if men were normal and weighed probabilities without ...
... reference to any re- ward it may bring besides . Indeed , all goods result- ing secondarily from virtue as a means , are secondary , adventitious , and would not be eagerly expected if men were normal and weighed probabilities without ...
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... reference to an after - life in- sensibly lowers our conception of morals : " In our habit of connecting every magnanimous impulse , every honest and pure thought , exclusively with our hope of immortality , there always lurks the ...
... reference to an after - life in- sensibly lowers our conception of morals : " In our habit of connecting every magnanimous impulse , every honest and pure thought , exclusively with our hope of immortality , there always lurks the ...
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... , consistent , and never strained ; if the rea- son for each duty were shown , and a due proportion observed ; if they had reference only to their actual ends , we should have nothing left to do but 80 MODERN POET PROPHETS .
... , consistent , and never strained ; if the rea- son for each duty were shown , and a due proportion observed ; if they had reference only to their actual ends , we should have nothing left to do but 80 MODERN POET PROPHETS .
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... reference to what will result of it - auother imagined life or lives . Unsatis- factory for me now as an individual , or for us as a society , it is not so with reference to what it will be to other individuals in a better society . And ...
... reference to what will result of it - auother imagined life or lives . Unsatis- factory for me now as an individual , or for us as a society , it is not so with reference to what it will be to other individuals in a better society . And ...
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Modern Poet Prophets: Essays Critical and Interpretative William Norman Guthrie Vista de fragmentos - 1973 |
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Arnold artist beauty become believe body consciousness course death Demogorgon desire divine doctrine doubt drama dream dualism earth Elias Hicks Empedocles essay eternal evil Evolutional Philosophy eyes fact faith fancy Faust feel forever give glory Goethe happy heart heaven holy hope human idea ideal illusion imagination immortality Jupiter leave Leaves of Grass less living man's mankind matter Matthew Arnold means ment mind monism moral nature never Obermann Ode to Duty ourselves pain passion perfect philosophic pleasure poem poet poetry possible present Prometheus Unbound reader realism religion sake Senancour sense Shelley Shelley's song Sophocles soul soul's speak spirit suffering sure sweet Swinburne sympathy thee theology theory theosophies things thou thought tion true truth two-spirit uncon universe utter virtue Walt Walt Whitman Whitman whole words worship Zeus
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Página 146 - And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book ; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God as it were in the eye.
Página 129 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Página 295 - What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death...
Página 254 - I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things...
Página 122 - O love, my love! if I no more should see Thyself, nor on the earth the shadow of thee, Nor image of thine eyes in any spring, — How then should sound upon Life's darkening slope The ground-whirl of the perished leaves of Hope, The wind of Death's imperishable wing?
Página 31 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Página 151 - The highest moral purpose aimed at in the highest species of the drama, is the teaching the human heart, through its sympathies and antipathies, the knowledge of itself; in proportion to the possession of which knowledge, every human being is wise, just, sincere, tolerant and kind.
Página 128 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Página 241 - We consider bibles and religions divine — I do not say they are not divine, I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still, It is not they who give the life...
Página 329 - Eternal dooms for His immortal sons. From ho"pe and firmer faith to perfect love Attracted and absorbed : and centered there God only to behold, and know, and feel Till by exclusive consciousness of God All self-annihilated it shall make God its Identity...