Shelburne Essays: 3rd seriesPutnam, 1905 - 265 strani |
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Stran 44
... philosophers would accept the response of Whittier : We search the world for truth ; we cull The good , the pure , the beautiful , From graven stone and written scroll , From all old flower - fields of the soul ; And , weary seekers of ...
... philosophers would accept the response of Whittier : We search the world for truth ; we cull The good , the pure , the beautiful , From graven stone and written scroll , From all old flower - fields of the soul ; And , weary seekers of ...
Stran 59
... philosophy of the eighteenth century , with a strain of melan- choly quite peculiar to the baffled experience of the nineteenth . His aim henceforth was to apply to the study of mankind the analytical precision of science , with a ...
... philosophy of the eighteenth century , with a strain of melan- choly quite peculiar to the baffled experience of the nineteenth . His aim henceforth was to apply to the study of mankind the analytical precision of science , with a ...
Stran 141
... philosophy of atheistic revolt . Like Lucretius , " he denied divinely the divine . " In that tremendous con- versation on the river - walk he represents one soul as protesting to another that not for all his misery would he carry the ...
... philosophy of atheistic revolt . Like Lucretius , " he denied divinely the divine . " In that tremendous con- versation on the river - walk he represents one soul as protesting to another that not for all his misery would he carry the ...
Stran 143
... philosophy into convenient compartments , labelled nature , human life , art , love , etc. Then came Mr. Chesterton , with his biting paradoxes and his bold justification of Browning's work , not as it ought to be , but as it is ...
... philosophy into convenient compartments , labelled nature , human life , art , love , etc. Then came Mr. Chesterton , with his biting paradoxes and his bold justification of Browning's work , not as it ought to be , but as it is ...
Stran 152
... with those extraordinary chapters in Schopenhauer wherein philosophy and literature are married as they have seldom been elsewhere since the days of Plato . And yet without any such formidable ap- paratus 152 SHELBURNE ESSAYS.
... with those extraordinary chapters in Schopenhauer wherein philosophy and literature are married as they have seldom been elsewhere since the days of Plato . And yet without any such formidable ap- paratus 152 SHELBURNE ESSAYS.
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beauty Boileau Browning Browning's Byron called character charm Christina Rossetti Church confession Cowper critic death divine doubt dreams Eliza emotion England English essays eyes faith feel feminine G. P. Putnam's Sons genius hand haps heart heaven honour Hugo human humour ideal imagination John Inglesant Journal to Eliza kind Lady language Laurence Sterne letters light literature living look man's matter memory mind motion mystic nature never novel Olney passed passion peace peculiar phenomena philosophy Plato poet poet's poetry prose reader religion religious romantic Sainte-Beuve scene Scotch seems sense sentiment Shandy Hall Shorthouse song soul spirit Sterne Sterne's story strange sweet Swinburne Swinburne's Thackeray thee things thou thought tion to-day Tristram Shandy truth turn verse Victor Hugo Vincent Bourne vision voice Whittier William Cowper words worldly writing written wrote Yorick
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Stran 159 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Stran 41 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Stran 45 - They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear; It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast, Like stars upon some gloomy grove, Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest After the sun's remove.
Stran 1 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made That thou mightst know me safe and warmly laid , Thy morning bounties ere I left my home. The biscuit, or confectionary plum...
Stran 19 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Stran 136 - Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.
Stran 1 - Tis now become a history little known, That once we called the pastoral house our own. Short-lived possession ! But the record fair, That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm, that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced.
Stran 1 - I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else, how distinct they say, 'Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!
Stran 23 - Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary ! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more ; My Mary ! For though thou gladly wouldst fulfil The same kind office for me still, Thy sight now seconds not thy will...
Stran 46 - After the sun's remove. I see them walking in an air of glory, Whose light doth trample on my days; My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmering and decays.