Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 35
Page 11
... become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an ...
... become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and executioner ; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an ...
Page 15
... becomes subjec- tive ; in other words there is properly no history , only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , — must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know ...
... becomes subjec- tive ; in other words there is properly no history , only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself , — must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know ...
Page 21
... becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely , -but , by watching for a time his motions and plays , the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered ...
... becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely , -but , by watching for a time his motions and plays , the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered ...
Page 25
... becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imi- tated in the slender shafts and capitals of his archi- tecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its magnificent era never ...
... becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imi- tated in the slender shafts and capitals of his archi- tecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its magnificent era never ...
Page 29
... become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are not reflective , but perfect in their senses . and in their health , with the finest physical ...
... become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are not reflective , but perfect in their senses . and in their health , with the finest physical ...
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 Egypt 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 perception perfect persons Petrarch Phidias Phocion picture Pindar Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry prudence relations religion Rome sculpture secret seek seems seen sense sensual sentiment Shakspeare society Socrates Sophocles soul speak 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