Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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Page 5
... passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an im- mortal sign ...
... passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an im- mortal sign ...
Page 6
... passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our man . But we apply ...
... passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our man . But we apply ...
Page 14
... passes personally through a Grecian period . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the per- fection of the senses of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which ...
... passes personally through a Grecian period . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the per- fection of the senses of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which ...
Page 15
... passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity of man , the identity of his thought . The Greek had , it seems , the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then ...
... passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity of man , the identity of his thought . The Greek had , it seems , the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then ...
Page 22
... pass through the whole cycle of experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and titles ...
... pass through the whole cycle of experience . He shall collect into a focus the rays of nature . History no longer shall be a dull book . It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man . You shall not tell me by languages and titles ...
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