Emerson, and Other EssaysMoffat, Yard, 1909 - 247 pages |
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Page 138 - purpose, ingenuity, and, above all, external calmness. " Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council ; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 202 - it was the first, And Prospero, the Prime Duke, being so reputed In dignity and for the liberal arts, Without a parallel : those being all my study, The government I cast upon my brother, And to my state grew stranger, being transported And wrapped in secret studies. Thy false uncle — Dost thou attend me
Page 207 - breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph. Held, we fall to rise — are baffled to fight betterSleep to wake.
Page 14 - of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue. Instantly the book becomes noxious : the guide is a tyrant . . . Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all
Page 140 - O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh." How much of all this psychology may we suppose was rendered apparent to the motley
Page 132 - With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls ; For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt; Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me.
Page 235 - slumber; killing, feeding, growing, bringing forth small copies of himself; grown upon with hair like grass, fitted with eyes that move and glitter in his face ; a thing to set children screaming ; — and yet looked at nearlier, known as his fellows know him, how surprising are his attributes.
Page 21 - he can, but a brave and upright man who must find or cut a straight road to everything excellent in the earth, and not only go honorably himself, but make it easier for all who follow him to go in honor and with benefit. . . .
Page 202 - lov'd, and to him put The manage of my state ; as at that time Through all the seignories it was the first, And Prospero, the Prime Duke, being so reputed In dignity and for the liberal arts, Without a parallel
Page 12 - heat, water, azote; but to lead us to regard nature as phenomenon, not a substance ; to attribute necessary existence to spirit ; to esteem nature as an accident and an effect." Perhaps these quotations from the pamphlet called Nature