Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 82
Page 30
... person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas . I ad- mire the love of nature in the Philoctetes . In read- ing those fine apostrophes to sleep , to the stars , rocks ...
... person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas . I ad- mire the love of nature in the Philoctetes . In read- ing those fine apostrophes to sleep , to the stars , rocks ...
Page 40
... person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to suffice that in the light of these two facts , explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it 40 HISTORY .
... person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to suffice that in the light of these two facts , explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it 40 HISTORY .
Page 41
... person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to suffice that in the light of these two facts , explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it 40 HISTORY .
... person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to suffice that in the light of these two facts , explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it 40 HISTORY .
Page 74
... persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force and do lean and beg ...
... persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force and do lean and beg ...
Page 51
... person , watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hun- dreds , whose affections must now enter into his ac- count . There is no Lethe for this . Ah , that he could pass again into his neutrality ! Who can thus avoid all pledges and ...
... person , watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hun- dreds , whose affections must now enter into his ac- count . There is no Lethe for this . Ah , that he could pass again into his neutrality ! Who can thus avoid all pledges and ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action appear beauty behold Belisarius better Bonduca Cæsar character conversation divine dream earth effect Emanuel Swedenborg Epaminondas eternal evil experience fact fear feel fire friendship genius gifts give hand heart heaven hero heroism Honest Man's Fortune hope hour human intellect less light live look lose man's ment mind moon names nature never night noble numbers old joy OVER-SOUL Parliament of Love pass passion Peninsular campaigns Perceforest perception perfect Pericles persons Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry praise prudence relations religion royal sails seek seems sense sensual sentiment society Sophocles soul speak spirit stand star stoicism sweet Tamerlane teach thee things thou thought tion to-day true truth ture universal vale of Tempe virtue walk whilst whole wisdom wise words write youth