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Page xi
... become of their book. The old proofsheets were again taken in hand, but again with a painful sense of incapacity to deal with them. By degrees and with much reluctance he admitted the necessity of some assistance. It was known to his ...
... become of their book. The old proofsheets were again taken in hand, but again with a painful sense of incapacity to deal with them. By degrees and with much reluctance he admitted the necessity of some assistance. It was known to his ...
Page 13
... become marble, woe to the antiques ! " A happy symbol is a sort of evidence that your thought is just. I had rather have a good symbol of my thought, or a good analogy, than the sufl'rage of Kant or Plato. If you agree with me, or if ...
... become marble, woe to the antiques ! " A happy symbol is a sort of evidence that your thought is just. I had rather have a good symbol of my thought, or a good analogy, than the sufl'rage of Kant or Plato. If you agree with me, or if ...
Page 18
... become mute and near-sighted. What is motion? what is beauty? what is matter? what is life? what is force? Push them hard and they will not be loquacious. They will come to Plato, Proclus and Swedenborg. The invisible and imponderable ...
... become mute and near-sighted. What is motion? what is beauty? what is matter? what is life? what is force? Push them hard and they will not be loquacious. They will come to Plato, Proclus and Swedenborg. The invisible and imponderable ...
Page 28
... becomes fanciful with Tom, playing with the superficial resemblances of objects. Bunyan, in pain for his soul, wrote Pilgrim's Progress ; Quarles, after he was quite cool, wrote Emblems. Imagination is central ; fancy, superficial ...
... becomes fanciful with Tom, playing with the superficial resemblances of objects. Bunyan, in pain for his soul, wrote Pilgrim's Progress ; Quarles, after he was quite cool, wrote Emblems. Imagination is central ; fancy, superficial ...
Page 34
... becomes poetic in the hands of a higher thought. The test or measure of poetic genius is the power to read the poetry of afi'airs,—to fuse the circumstance of today; not to use Scott's antique superstitions, or Shakspeare's, but to ...
... becomes poetic in the hands of a higher thought. The test or measure of poetic genius is the power to read the poetry of afi'airs,—to fuse the circumstance of today; not to use Scott's antique superstitions, or Shakspeare's, but to ...
Contents
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ELOQUENCE | 118 |
RESOURCES | 137 |
THE COMIC | 172 |
PROGRESS OF CULTURE | 205 |
PERSIAN POETRY | 235 |
IMMORTALITY | 321 |
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