Joyous GardG.P. Putnam's sons, 1913 - 267 páginas |
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... thought , which flows on , gently and resistlessly , in the back- ground of our lives , the volume and spring of which we cannot alter or diminish , because it rises far away at some unseen source , like a stream which flows through ...
... thought , which flows on , gently and resistlessly , in the back- ground of our lives , the volume and spring of which we cannot alter or diminish , because it rises far away at some unseen source , like a stream which flows through ...
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... thoughts is what more than anything else keeps us apart from each other . In this book I have said , or tried to say , just what I thought and as I thought it ; and as it is a book which recommends a studied quietness and a cheerful ...
... thoughts is what more than anything else keeps us apart from each other . In this book I have said , or tried to say , just what I thought and as I thought it ; and as it is a book which recommends a studied quietness and a cheerful ...
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Arthur Christopher Benson. CHAPTER PAGE XV . - VISIONS 135 XVI . - THOUGHT 143 XVII . - ACCESSIBILITY 155 XVIII . - SYMPATHY 168 XIX . - SCIENCE 178 XX . - WORK 188 • XXI . - HOPE 196 XXII . - EXPERIENCE 209 XXIII . - FAITH 219 XXIV ...
Arthur Christopher Benson. CHAPTER PAGE XV . - VISIONS 135 XVI . - THOUGHT 143 XVII . - ACCESSIBILITY 155 XVIII . - SYMPATHY 168 XIX . - SCIENCE 178 XX . - WORK 188 • XXI . - HOPE 196 XXII . - EXPERIENCE 209 XXIII . - FAITH 219 XXIV ...
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... thought is hard , it is also dangerous when won , because it tempts us to immure our- selves in peace , and only observe from afar the plain of life , which lies all about the Castle , gazing down through the high win- dows ; to shut ...
... thought is hard , it is also dangerous when won , because it tempts us to immure our- selves in peace , and only observe from afar the plain of life , which lies all about the Castle , gazing down through the high win- dows ; to shut ...
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... and modesty of the true knight . This little book then is an account , as far as I can give it , of what we may do to help ourselves in the matter , by feeding and 1 nurturing the finer and sweeter thought , which , like.
... and modesty of the true knight . This little book then is an account , as far as I can give it , of what we may do to help ourselves in the matter , by feeding and 1 nurturing the finer and sweeter thought , which , like.
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Página 36 - The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man. It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.
Página 46 - ... amid fair sights and sounds; and beauty, the effluence of fair works, will meet the sense like a breeze, and insensibly draw the soul even in childhood into harmony with the beauty of reason.
Página 31 - I feel more and more every day, as my imagination strengthens, that I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand worlds. No sooner am I alone than shapes of epic greatness are stationed around me, and serve my Spirit the office which is equivalent to a King's body guard — then 'Tragedy with scepter'd pall, comes sweeping by'.
Página 87 - Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Página 32 - The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power arises from within, like the...
Página 2 - Wherefore? said Sir Bors. Truly, said the bishop, here was Sir Launcelot with me, with more angels than ever I saw men upon one day; and I saw the angels heave Sir Launcelot unto heaven, and the gates of heaven opened against him.
Página 182 - ... deep moments, good to live by, strengthgiving—I find it preposterous, I say, to suppose that the goodness of that feeling for living purposes should be held to carry no objective significance, and especially preposterous if it combines harmoniously with an otherwise grounded philosophy of objective truth.
Página 31 - ... was unappreciated and underestimated. His commonplaceness, when it appears, is not a defect of quality, but an eager human interest in the personalities among whom his lot was cast. But every now and then there swells up a poignant sense of passion and beauty, a sacred, haunting, devouring fire of inspiration, which leaps high and clear upon the homely altar.
Página 31 - This morning Poetry has conquered. I have relapsed into those abstractions which are my only life. I feel escaped from a new, strange and threatening sorrow, and I am thankful for it. There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of Immortality.