If, in the simple process of writing, one could physically impart to this page the fragrance of this spray of azalea beside me, what a wonder would it seem ! — and yet one ought to be able, by the mere use of language, to supply to every reader the... Out-door Papers - Page 337by Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1886 - 370 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1862 - 796 pages
...the glistening of the water, the waving wings of butterflies, the sunset tints, the floating clouds, there are attainable infinitely more subtile modulations...method, even by music, for human art to reach so high. ONE OF MY CLIENTS. AFTEK a practice in the legal profession of more than twenty years, I am persuaded... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1863 - 388 pages
...the glistening of the water, the waving wings of butterflies, the sunset tints, the floating clouds, there are attainable infinitely more subtile modulations...method, even by music, for human art to reach so high. 15 SNOW. SNOW. ALL through the long hours of yesterday the low clouds hung close above onr heads, to... | |
| 1863 - 774 pages
...physically impart to his page the fragrance of this spray of azalea beside me, what a wonder it would seem ! — and yet one ought to be able, by the mere...method, even by music, for human art to reach so high.' To this very height of human art has Mr. Higginson, in the article from which the. above is a quotation,... | |
| 1875 - 324 pages
...Universe loves. The defect is not in language, but in men. There is no conceivable beauty of blossoms so beautiful as words — none so graceful, none so...method, even by music, for human art to reach so high. — TW Hijjinson. DEMORALIZATION CONSEQUENT ON IBKELIGION. — Once let men thoroughly believe that... | |
| 1885 - 528 pages
...and beauty of syllables are not to be despised. Says Higginson, in his "Procession of the Flowers:" "If, in the simple process of writing, one could physically...white and azure match their purity and their charm." True ; and the syllables will be delicious in proportion as we think first and most of the azalea blossom,... | |
| Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 pages
...beautifully illustrated in his own writing the power of human speech than Mr. Higginson? "There is," he says, "no conceivable beauty of blossom so beautiful as...white and azure match their purity and their charm. . . . A finely organized sentence should throb and palpitate like the most delicate vibrations of the... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1889 - 702 pages
...Universe loves. The defect is not in language, but in men. There is no conceivable beauty of blossoms so beautiful as words, — none so graceful, none...method, even by music, for human art to reach so high. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. George William Curtis was born in Providence, RI, February 24, 1824. He received... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1893 - 700 pages
...Universe loves. The defect is not in language, but in men. There is no conceivable beauty of blossoms so beautiful as words, — none so graceful, none...cannot rival their perfection, nor winter's stainless while and azure match their purity and their charm. To write them, were it possible, would be to take... | |
| Barton Levi St Armand - 1986 - 388 pages
...sensuous apprehension of the natural world, and in "The Procession of the Flowers" he declared that "It is possible to dream of combinations of syllables...and decay of summer cannot rival their perfection" (ODP, 337). He added, "To write them, were it possible, would be to take rank with Nature, nor is there... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1900 - 418 pages
...trailing sweetness, which summer insects haunt and the Spirit of the Universe loves. The defect is not hi language, but in men. There is no conceivable beauty...method, even by music, for human art to reach so high. HI APRIL DAYS " Can trouble dwell with April days ? " In Memoriam, IN our methodical American life,... | |
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