Essays, orations and lecturesW. Tegg & Company, 1848 - 385 pages |
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... pictures - in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius - anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters ; but rather is it true that in their grandest ...
... pictures - in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius - anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters ; but rather is it true that in their grandest ...
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... picture or copy of verses , if they do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk , although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and out of the ...
... picture or copy of verses , if they do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk , although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and out of the ...
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... pictures , are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art , and the history of literature - all must be explained from individual history , or must remain words . There is nothing but is related to us ...
... pictures , are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art , and the history of literature - all must be explained from individual history , or must remain words . There is nothing but is related to us ...
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... Diomed of Homer , and not far different is the picture Xenophon gives of himself and his compatriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand : " After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia , there fell 14 ESSAYS .
... Diomed of Homer , and not far different is the picture Xenophon gives of himself and his compatriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand : " After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia , there fell 14 ESSAYS .
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... picture waits for my verdict ; it is not to command me , but I am to settle its claims to praise . That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street , carried to the duke's house , washed and dressed and laid in ...
... picture waits for my verdict ; it is not to command me , but I am to settle its claims to praise . That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street , carried to the duke's house , washed and dressed and laid in ...
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Page 32 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Page 26 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till.
Page 27 - Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
Page 33 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Page 156 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Page 69 - They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Page 1 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Page 28 - ... what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul...
Page 60 - The mind now thinks, now acts; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended and books are a weariness — he has always the resource to live.
Page 30 - What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.