EssaysH.M. Caldwell, 1892 |
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Page 15
... object , far better than its old value , as the carpenter's stretched cord , if you hold your ear close enough , is musical in the breeze . " Things more excellent than every image , " says Jamblichus , " are expressed through images ...
... object , far better than its old value , as the carpenter's stretched cord , if you hold your ear close enough , is musical in the breeze . " Things more excellent than every image , " says Jamblichus , " are expressed through images ...
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... object . He perceives the in- dependence of the thought on the symbol , the stability of the thought , the accidency and fugac- ity of the symbol . As the eyes of Lyncæus were said to see through the earth , so the poet turns the world ...
... object . He perceives the in- dependence of the thought on the symbol , the stability of the thought , the accidency and fugac- ity of the symbol . As the eyes of Lyncæus were said to see through the earth , so the poet turns the world ...
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... objects paint their images on the retina of the eye , so they , sharing the aspiration of the whole universe , tend to paint a far more delicate copy of their essence in his mind . Like the metamorphosis of things into higher organic ...
... objects paint their images on the retina of the eye , so they , sharing the aspiration of the whole universe , tend to paint a far more delicate copy of their essence in his mind . Like the metamorphosis of things into higher organic ...
Page 28
... objects of nature , the sun , and moon , the animals , the water , and stones , which should be their toys . So the poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low and plain , that the common influences should delight him . His ...
... objects of nature , the sun , and moon , the animals , the water , and stones , which should be their toys . So the poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low and plain , that the common influences should delight him . His ...
Page 32
... to flow , and not to freeze . The poet did not stop at the color , or the form , but read their meaning ; neither may he rest in this meaning , but he makes the same objects exponents of his new thought . Here is 32 ESSAY I.
... to flow , and not to freeze . The poet did not stop at the color , or the form , but read their meaning ; neither may he rest in this meaning , but he makes the same objects exponents of his new thought . Here is 32 ESSAY I.
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