Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 28
... poets . When the gods come among men , they are not known . Jesus was not ; Socrates and Shak- speare were not . Antæus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules , but every time he touched his mother earth , his strength was renewed ...
... poets . When the gods come among men , they are not known . Jesus was not ; Socrates and Shak- speare were not . Antæus was suffocated by the gripe of Hercules , but every time he touched his mother earth , his strength was renewed ...
Page 30
... poets utter great and wise things which they do not them- selves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic ex- pression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to ...
... poets utter great and wise things which they do not them- selves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic ex- pression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to ...
Page 34
... Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have described that goddess , in a robe painted all over with wonderful events and experiences ; -his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be 34 ESSAY I.
... Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have described that goddess , in a robe painted all over with wonderful events and experiences ; -his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be 34 ESSAY I.
Page 61
... poets , who are not . This is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach on this , as on every topic , the resolution of all into the ever - blessed ONE . Self - existence is the at- ribute of the Supreme Cause , and it constitutes the ...
... poets , who are not . This is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach on this , as on every topic , the resolution of all into the ever - blessed ONE . Self - existence is the at- ribute of the Supreme Cause , and it constitutes the ...
Page 96
... poets related that stone walls , and iron swords , and leathern thongs had an occult sympathy with the wrongs of their owners ; that the belt which Ajax gave Hector dragged the Trojan hero over the field at the wheels of the car of ...
... poets related that stone walls , and iron swords , and leathern thongs had an occult sympathy with the wrongs of their owners ; that the belt which Ajax gave Hector dragged the Trojan hero over the field at the wheels of the car of ...
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