Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 139
... evermore from premature ideas . Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face , until the hour ar- rives when the mind is ripened ; then we behold them , and the time when we saw them not SPIRITUAL LAWS . 139.
... evermore from premature ideas . Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face , until the hour ar- rives when the mind is ripened ; then we behold them , and the time when we saw them not SPIRITUAL LAWS . 139.
Page 168
... Behold there in the wood the fine madman ! He is a palace of sweet sounds and sights ; he dilates ; he is twice a man ; he walks with arms akimbo ; he soliloquizes ; he accosts the grass and the trees ; he feels the blood of the violet ...
... Behold there in the wood the fine madman ! He is a palace of sweet sounds and sights ; he dilates ; he is twice a man ; he walks with arms akimbo ; he soliloquizes ; he accosts the grass and the trees ; he feels the blood of the violet ...
Page 232
... behold before my Sophocles : Farewell ; now teach the Romans how to die . Mar. Dost know what ' t is to die ? Soph . Thou dost not , Martius , And , therefore , not what ' t is to live ; to die Is to begin to live . It is to end An old ...
... behold before my Sophocles : Farewell ; now teach the Romans how to die . Mar. Dost know what ' t is to die ? Soph . Thou dost not , Martius , And , therefore , not what ' t is to live ; to die Is to begin to live . It is to end An old ...
Page 253
... whom it will , and behold ! their speech shall be lyrical , and sweet , and universal as the rising of the wind . Yet I desire , even by profane words , if I may not use sacred , to indicate the heaven THE OVER - SOUL . 253.
... whom it will , and behold ! their speech shall be lyrical , and sweet , and universal as the rising of the wind . Yet I desire , even by profane words , if I may not use sacred , to indicate the heaven THE OVER - SOUL . 253.
Page 277
... It calls the light its own , and feels that the grass grows and the stone falls by a law inferior to , and dependent on , its nature . Behold , it saith , I am born into the great , the universal mind . I THE OVER - SOUL . 277.
... It calls the light its own , and feels that the grass grows and the stone falls by a law inferior to , and dependent on , its nature . Behold , it saith , I am born into the great , the universal mind . I THE OVER - SOUL . 277.
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