Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 25
... light shines upon your necessary journey . The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October , who ever could clutch it ? Go forth to find it , and it is gone ; ' t is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence ...
... light shines upon your necessary journey . The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October , who ever could clutch it ? Go forth to find it , and it is gone ; ' t is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence ...
Page 29
... light upon the mystery of humanity . A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world . It is the result or expression of nature , in miniature . For although the works of nature are innumerable and all different , the result or the ...
... light upon the mystery of humanity . A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world . It is the result or expression of nature , in miniature . For although the works of nature are innumerable and all different , the result or the ...
Page 32
... Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance ; and heat for love . Visi- ble distance behind and before us , is respectively our image of memory and hope . Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is ...
... Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance ; and heat for love . Visi- ble distance behind and before us , is respectively our image of memory and hope . Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is ...
Page 34
... light and heat . But is there no intent of an analogy between man's life and the seasons ? And do the seasons gain no grandeur or pathos from that analogy ? The instincts of the ant are very unimportant considered as the ant's ; but the ...
... light and heat . But is there no intent of an analogy between man's life and the seasons ? And do the seasons gain no grandeur or pathos from that analogy ? The instincts of the ant are very unimportant considered as the ant's ; but the ...
Page 37
... light flows into the mind evermore , and we for- get its presence . The poet , the orator , bred in the woods , whose senses have been nourished by their fair and appeasing changes , year after year , with- out design and without heed ...
... light flows into the mind evermore , and we for- get its presence . The poet , the orator , bred in the woods , whose senses have been nourished by their fair and appeasing changes , year after year , with- out design and without heed ...
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