Littell's Living Age, Volume 112Living Age Company Incorporated, 1872 |
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their genuine sense of the seriousness of the business they are engaged in . They are , like the public around them , pene- trated with this , and so the actor throws his whole soul into what he is about , the public meets the actor ...
their genuine sense of the seriousness of the business they are engaged in . They are , like the public around them , pene- trated with this , and so the actor throws his whole soul into what he is about , the public meets the actor ...
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... sense of the word , and although the Greeks the authority either of the Bible , or even of the Veda among the Brahmans , or the Zend Avesta among the Parsis , yet I would not deny altogether that in a cer- tain sense the mythology of ...
... sense of the word , and although the Greeks the authority either of the Bible , or even of the Veda among the Brahmans , or the Zend Avesta among the Parsis , yet I would not deny altogether that in a cer- tain sense the mythology of ...
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... sense , and they must be in- cidents of human paternity and sonship . cluded in language before we are justified But we are not so ready to see that it is in saying that discursive thought can be our fate , too , to move in allegories ...
... sense , and they must be in- cidents of human paternity and sonship . cluded in language before we are justified But we are not so ready to see that it is in saying that discursive thought can be our fate , too , to move in allegories ...
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... sense of the word . One of the on the earth saw that brilliant being slowly earliest objects that would strike and stir rising from out the darkness of the night , the mind of man and for which a sign or a raising itself by its own ...
... sense of the word . One of the on the earth saw that brilliant being slowly earliest objects that would strike and stir rising from out the darkness of the night , the mind of man and for which a sign or a raising itself by its own ...
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... sense in them . Besides , he who comes from , or belongs to those if Phoibos means the sun , why should not who dwell on high , led to the myth that he Daphne have a meaning too ? Before , was the descendant of Hyperion ; so that ...
... sense in them . Besides , he who comes from , or belongs to those if Phoibos means the sun , why should not who dwell on high , led to the myth that he Daphne have a meaning too ? Before , was the descendant of Hyperion ; so that ...
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Page 284 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 71 - The other shape, — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either, — black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 68 - A nun demure of lowly port; Or sprightly maiden, of Love's court, In thy simplicity the sport Of all temptations; A queen in crown of rubies drest ; A starveling in a scanty vest; Are all, as seems to suit thee best, Thy appellations.
Page 256 - Strange to think by the way, Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.
Page 408 - He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Page 408 - To rescue Israel from the Roman yoke ; Then to subdue and quell, o'er all the earth, Brute violence and proud tyrannic power, Till truth were freed, and equity restored...
Page 68 - To every natural form, rock, fruit, or flower, Even the loose stones that cover the highway, I gave a moral life : I saw them feel, Or linked them to some feeling : the great mass Lay bedded in a quickening soul, and all That I beheld respired with inward meaning.
Page 69 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 73 - By the mercy of God, I am already come within twenty years of his number, a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
Page 5 - He traversed the desert of Arabia with a timorous retinue of women and children ; but as he approached the confines of Irak he was alarmed by the solitary or hostile face of the country, and suspected either the defection or ruin of his party. His fears were just: Obeidollah, the governor of Cufa, had...