Last Evening with Allston, and Other PapersD. Lothrop, 1886 - 350 pages |
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Æschylus Allston Allstonian ancient Apollo artist Atheism beauty body Brahminism called character Christ Christian Church consciousness cultivated culture dance death Delphi divine Donatello Dorian earth eternal Europe evil expression eyes fact faith Father feeling Fourier friends genius give Grecian Greece Greeks hand harmony heart heaven Helots Hesiod highest Hilda Homer Homeric Hymn human idea ideal imagination immortal individual infinite intellectual Jesus Jupiter K. O. Müller Karl Otfried Müller labor language less light living look Lycurgus Madame Meszlenyi manifestation material means ment mind Miriam moral Müller nations nature never numbers object organization painting passion Pelasgian Peloponnesus perfect picture political principle prove race relations religion religious Roman Catholic Church seems sense sentiment social society soul Sparta speak spirit symbolic temple thing thou thought tion truth unfold Vale of Tempe whole wisdom words worship
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Page 22 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 227 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 238 - ... which recognizes moral infirmity. Moral psychology does no more for the criminal than to furnish a comprehensive commentary on these two texts. If we cannot help feeling more and more that it is God who worketh in us to will and to do...
Page 222 - The evidence that there is a Being, all-powerful, wise, and good, by whom every thing exists ; and particularly, to obviate difficulties regarding the wisdom and goodness of the Deity ; and this, in the first place, from considerations independent of written revelation, and, in the second place, from the Revelation of the Lord Jesus ; and from the whole, to point out the inferences most necessary for and useful to mankind.
Page 173 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 327 - This is terrible ; and I could weep for you, if you indeed believe it. Do not you perceive what a mockery your creed makes, not only of all religious sentiments, but of moral law ? and how it annuls and obliterates whatever precepts of Heaven are written deepest within us ? You have shocked me beyond words...
Page 307 - Of so much we are sure, that there seemed to be a sadly mysterious fascination in the influence of this ill-omened person over Miriam; it was such as beasts and reptiles of subtle and evil nature sometimes exercise upon their victims.
Page 324 - Donatello had seemed identical with the Faun. And still there was a resemblance; for now, when first the idea was suggested of living for the welfare of his fellowcreatures, the original beauty, which sorrow had partly effaced, came back elevated and spiritualized. In the black depths, the Faun had found a soul, and was struggling with it towards the light of Heaven.
Page 42 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 236 - Have I been so long with you, and hast thou not known Me, Philip ? He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.