EssaysH.M. Caldwell, 1892 |
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Page 13
... wonderful spirit has not expired ! these stony moments are still sparkling and ani- mated ! I had fancied that the oracles were all silent , and nature had spent her fires , and be- hold ! all night , from every pore , these fine ...
... wonderful spirit has not expired ! these stony moments are still sparkling and ani- mated ! I had fancied that the oracles were all silent , and nature had spent her fires , and be- hold ! all night , from every pore , these fine ...
Page 15
... wonderful value ap- pears in the 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 ...
... wonderful value ap- pears in the 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 ...
Page 24
... wonderful indirections he could tell . He rose one day , according to his habit , be- fore the dawn , and saw the morning break , grand as the eternity out of which it came , and , for many days after , he strove to express this tran ...
... wonderful indirections he could tell . He rose one day , according to his habit , be- fore the dawn , and saw the morning break , grand as the eternity out of which it came , and , for many days after , he strove to express this tran ...
Page 32
... wonderful . What if you come near to it , you are as remote , when you are nearest , as when you are farthest . Every thought is also a prison ; every heaven is also a prison . There- fore we love the poet , the inventor , who in any ...
... wonderful . What if you come near to it , you are as remote , when you are nearest , as when you are farthest . Every thought is also a prison ; every heaven is also a prison . There- fore we love the poet , the inventor , who in any ...
Page 44
... wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom , poetry , virtue . We never got it on any dated calendar day . Some heavenly days must have been inter- calated somewhere , like those that Hermes won with dice ...
... wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom , poetry , virtue . We never got it on any dated calendar day . Some heavenly days must have been inter- calated somewhere , like those that Hermes won with dice ...
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