Concord DaysRoberts Brothers, 1872 - 276 pages |
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... objects in the landscape . Modest tints are always becoming . White and red intolerable . And for some variety in dressing , the neighboring barks of shrubbery suggest and best characterize the coloring . As for fences and gates , I was ...
... objects in the landscape . Modest tints are always becoming . White and red intolerable . And for some variety in dressing , the neighboring barks of shrubbery suggest and best characterize the coloring . As for fences and gates , I was ...
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... objects accost him whenever he glances from his windows , or steps out - of - doors ? He who is so far weaned from the landscape , or indifferent to it , as not to derive a sweet and robust habit of char- acter therefrom , seems out of ...
... objects accost him whenever he glances from his windows , or steps out - of - doors ? He who is so far weaned from the landscape , or indifferent to it , as not to derive a sweet and robust habit of char- acter therefrom , seems out of ...
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... objects as if they were shooting forth from his mind mythologically , thus completing the world all round to his senses ; a creation of his at the moment . I am sure he knew the animals one by one , as most else knowable in his town ...
... objects as if they were shooting forth from his mind mythologically , thus completing the world all round to his senses ; a creation of his at the moment . I am sure he knew the animals one by one , as most else knowable in his town ...
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... object ? Iu self - sacrifice ? ALL ( eagerly to each question ) . Yes . Yes . Yes . Yes . ( Mr. Alcott here made some very interesting remarks on loving God with all our heart , soul , mind , etc. , and the Idea of Devotion it expressed ...
... object ? Iu self - sacrifice ? ALL ( eagerly to each question ) . Yes . Yes . Yes . Yes . ( Mr. Alcott here made some very interesting remarks on loving God with all our heart , soul , mind , etc. , and the Idea of Devotion it expressed ...
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... object ? JOSIAH . No ; there is not even the beginning of worship . It must have some temptation , I think , before it can know the thing to worship . MR . ALCOTT . But is there not a feeling that comes up from within , to answer to the ...
... object ? JOSIAH . No ; there is not even the beginning of worship . It must have some temptation , I think , before it can know the thing to worship . MR . ALCOTT . But is there not a feeling that comes up from within , to answer to the ...
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Page 93 - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Page 94 - The woman then left her water-pot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man which told me all things that ever I did : is not this the Christ?
Page 79 - And teach her fair steps tread our Earth ; Till that divine Idea, take a shrine Of crystal flesh, through which to shine ; Meet you her, my wishes, Bespeak her to my blisses, And be ye call'd, my absent kisses.
Page 93 - The woman answered, and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband ; 18 For thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband : in that saidst thou truly.
Page 94 - The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ : when he is come he will tell us all things.
Page 54 - ... to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.
Page 142 - And many a mystic thing, Which the divine embraces Of the dear Spouse of Spirits with them will bring, For which it is no shame That dull mortality must not know a name...
Page 82 - Life, that dares send A challenge to his end. And when it comes, say, "Welcome, friend !" Sydneian showers Of sweet discourse, whose powers Can crown old Winter's head with flowers.
Page 81 - Smiles, that can warm The blood, yet teach a charm, That chastity shall take no harm. Blushes, that bin The burnish of no sin, Nor flames of aught too hot within. Joys, that confess Virtue their mistress, And have no other head to dress.
Page 35 - ... quality of pear or plum Ascends as gladly in a single tree As in broad orchards resonant with bees; And every atom poises for itself, And for the whole. The gentle deities Showed me the lore of colors and of sounds, 60 The innumerable tenements of beauty, The miracle of generative force, Far-reaching concords of astronomy Felt in the plants and in the punctual birds ; Better, the linked purpose of the whole.