Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 24
Page 18
... eternal unity . Nature is a muta- ble cloud which is always and never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle ...
... eternal unity . Nature is a muta- ble cloud which is always and never the same . She casts the same thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle ...
Page 25
... eternal flower , with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty . In like manner all public facts are to be indi- vidualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then ...
... eternal flower , with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty . In like manner all public facts are to be indi- vidualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then ...
Page 34
... Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suffers all things on their account . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it represents a state of mind which readily ...
... Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suffers all things on their account . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it represents a state of mind which readily ...
Page 36
... eternal entities , as real to - day as in the first Olympiad . Much revolving them he writes out freely his humor , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it ...
... eternal entities , as real to - day as in the first Olympiad . Much revolving them he writes out freely his humor , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it ...
Page 69
... eternal causation , perceives the self - existence of Truth and Right , and calms itself with knowing that all things go well . Vast spaces of nature , the Atlantic Ocean , the South Sea ; long intervals of time , years , centuries ...
... eternal causation , perceives the self - existence of Truth and Right , and calms itself with knowing that all things go well . Vast spaces of nature , the Atlantic Ocean , the South Sea ; long intervals of time , years , centuries ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action affection appear beautiful soul beauty become behold better black event Bonduca Cæsar character conversation divine doctrine earth Epaminondas ergy eternal evanescent experience fable fact fear feel friendship genius gifts give Greek hand heart heaven Heraclitus heroism hour human intel intellect less light live look man's marriage ment mind moral nature never noble object OVER-SOUL painted pass passion perception perfect persons Petrarch Phidias Phocion picture Pindar Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry prudence relations religion Rome sculpture secret seek seems sense sensual sentiment Shakspeare shines society Socrates Sophocles soul speak spect Spinoza spirit stand Stoicism sweet talent teach tence thee things thou thought tion to-day to-morrow true truth ture universal virtue whilst whole wisdom wise words Xenophon youth