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... IRON AND BRONZE CONVERSATION ON ENTHUSIASM SWEDENBORG HAWTHORNE LANDOR • SLEEP AND DREAMS . GENESIS AND LAPSE . AUGUST . PLATO'S LETTERS PLATO 213 217 PAGE PLATO'S METHOD SOCRATES BERKELEY 222 234 · 236 BOEHME vi CONTENTS .
... IRON AND BRONZE CONVERSATION ON ENTHUSIASM SWEDENBORG HAWTHORNE LANDOR • SLEEP AND DREAMS . GENESIS AND LAPSE . AUGUST . PLATO'S LETTERS PLATO 213 217 PAGE PLATO'S METHOD SOCRATES BERKELEY 222 234 · 236 BOEHME vi CONTENTS .
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... sleep of his on the banks of the Merrimack by moonlight that Egypt never rivalled ; a morning of which Memnon might have envied the music , and a greyhound he once had , meant for Adonis ; frogs , better than any of Aristophanes ...
... sleep of his on the banks of the Merrimack by moonlight that Egypt never rivalled ; a morning of which Memnon might have envied the music , and a greyhound he once had , meant for Adonis ; frogs , better than any of Aristophanes ...
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... sleep connecting its leaves ; or per- haps the newspaper , once an accident , and coming ir- regularly , links his evening with morning , morning with evening ; newspaper before breakfast , before business ,. before sleep ; daily bread ...
... sleep connecting its leaves ; or per- haps the newspaper , once an accident , and coming ir- regularly , links his evening with morning , morning with evening ; newspaper before breakfast , before business ,. before sleep ; daily bread ...
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... sleep , exercise , affairs , subservient to thought , his products are gathered as they ripen , stored in his commonplaces ; their contents transcribed at intervals , and classified . It is the order of ideas , of imagination observed ...
... sleep , exercise , affairs , subservient to thought , his products are gathered as they ripen , stored in his commonplaces ; their contents transcribed at intervals , and classified . It is the order of ideas , of imagination observed ...
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... sleep oftentimes to restore one to his place and poise for customary employment ; half a dozen annually being full as many as the stoutest heads may well undertake without detriment . Certainly safer not to venture with- out the sure ...
... sleep oftentimes to restore one to his place and poise for customary employment ; half a dozen annually being full as many as the stoutest heads may well undertake without detriment . Certainly safer not to venture with- out the sure ...
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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.