The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volum 6David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 sider |
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... beauty and true pleasure around them . They feel that it is their blessed calling , not only to rejoice always themselves , but likewise to rejoice with all who do rejoice in innocence of heart . They feel that this must be well ...
... beauty and true pleasure around them . They feel that it is their blessed calling , not only to rejoice always themselves , but likewise to rejoice with all who do rejoice in innocence of heart . They feel that this must be well ...
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... beauty of holiness . This is the spiritual sky through which we should strive to mount , " springing from crystal step to crystal step , " and bathing our souls in its living , life - giving ether . These are the thoughts by which we ...
... beauty of holiness . This is the spiritual sky through which we should strive to mount , " springing from crystal step to crystal step , " and bathing our souls in its living , life - giving ether . These are the thoughts by which we ...
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... beauty , and his simpleness , and joyousness , the cultured generation is really dead , as completely as some spoiled beauty of the ball- room is dead to the bloom of the heather or the waving of the daffodils in a glade . It is a true ...
... beauty , and his simpleness , and joyousness , the cultured generation is really dead , as completely as some spoiled beauty of the ball- room is dead to the bloom of the heather or the waving of the daffodils in a glade . It is a true ...
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... beauty would serve my argument as well . Take the lat- est perhaps in the series of the world - wide and immortal poets of the whole human race Walter Scott . We all read Scott's romances , as we have all read Hume's " History of ...
... beauty would serve my argument as well . Take the lat- est perhaps in the series of the world - wide and immortal poets of the whole human race Walter Scott . We all read Scott's romances , as we have all read Hume's " History of ...
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... beauty of humanity , the joys and sorrows , the dignity and struggles , the long life - history of our common kind . I have said but little of the more difficult poetry , and the re- ligious meditations of the great idealists in prose ...
... beauty of humanity , the joys and sorrows , the dignity and struggles , the long life - history of our common kind . I have said but little of the more difficult poetry , and the re- ligious meditations of the great idealists in prose ...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volum 6 David Josiah Brewer Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1900 |
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Side 2338 - Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people— a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs...
Side 2273 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the...
Side 2334 - The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That sucked the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh ; That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy. O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
Side 2321 - ... and beauty of the grove ; graceful in its form, bright in its foliage, but with the worm preying at its heart. We find it suddenly withering, when it should be most fresh and luxuriant. We see it drooping its branches to the earth, and shedding leaf by leaf; until, wasted...
Side 2199 - It may seem strange to some man that has not well weighed these things that nature should thus dissociate and render men apt to invade and destroy one another; and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference made from the passions, desire perhaps to have the same confirmed by experience.
Side 2438 - In behint yon auld fail dyke I wot there lies a new-slain Knight; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. ' His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame,. His lady's...
Side 2402 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted out a thousand!" which they thought a malevolent speech.
Side 2402 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory (on this side Idolatry) as much as any). He was (indeed) honest, and of an open, and free nature : had an excellent fancy; brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Side 2126 - The husband and wife, drinking deep of peaceful joy — a calm bliss of temperate affections — shall pass hand in hand through life, and lie down, not reluctantly, at its protracted close. To them, the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams, nor the future an eternity of such moments as follow the delirium of the drunkard. Their dead faces shall express what their spirits were, and are to be, by a lingering smile of memory and hope.
Side 2400 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet, that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert, that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.