Essay on Language, and Other Essays and AddressesHoughton Mifflin,, 1889 - 400 páginas |
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Página iii
... ment he was always ready , but for himself , his own deepest experiences , the great truths to which he clung , he had no words . In silence , in those medita- tive hours which he seized on journeys , in crowded trains or on steamboats ...
... ment he was always ready , but for himself , his own deepest experiences , the great truths to which he clung , he had no words . In silence , in those medita- tive hours which he seized on journeys , in crowded trains or on steamboats ...
Página ix
... ment was contested , and two men allowed to return to jail and the case taken to a higher court , which decided they could not be held for jail fees . The officials were extremely exasperated , and my grand- father was frequently ...
... ment was contested , and two men allowed to return to jail and the case taken to a higher court , which decided they could not be held for jail fees . The officials were extremely exasperated , and my grand- father was frequently ...
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... we love , that , in the first mo- ment of rapture , we perceive not , we think not , that " soul is wanting there . " There is another advantage of thus limiting the mode of expression by rhyme . It checks the impetu- MEASURE . 13.
... we love , that , in the first mo- ment of rapture , we perceive not , we think not , that " soul is wanting there . " There is another advantage of thus limiting the mode of expression by rhyme . It checks the impetu- MEASURE . 13.
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... ment not imparted to those around him , and under circumstances for which deductions from the past fur- nish him with no rule of conduct . He has already questioned the omnipotence of reason , and doubts the integrity of the magnet ...
... ment not imparted to those around him , and under circumstances for which deductions from the past fur- nish him with no rule of conduct . He has already questioned the omnipotence of reason , and doubts the integrity of the magnet ...
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... ment that we enjoy the purest poetry which warms the soul in its earthly tabernacle . Those who have known the raptures of such converse , and have felt its exalting influence , will regard it as worthy a place in a higher sphere , and ...
... ment that we enjoy the purest poetry which warms the soul in its earthly tabernacle . Those who have known the raptures of such converse , and have felt its exalting influence , will regard it as worthy a place in a higher sphere , and ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 129 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 245 - It reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which Warmed the spring-time of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings, spreads our sympathies over all classes of society, knits us by new ties with universal being, and, through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold...
Página 367 - ... years To push eternity from human thought, And smother souls immortal in the dust ? A soul immortal, spending all her fires, Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, Thrown into tumult, raptur'd or alarm'd, At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
Página 244 - Its great tendency and purpose is, to carry the mind beyond and above the beaten, dusty, weary walks of ordinary life; to lift it into a purer element, and to breathe into it more profound and generous emotion.
Página 242 - Christians than that of man's immortality ; but it is not so generally understood, that the germs or principles of his whole future being are now wrapped up in his soul, as the rudiments of the future plant in the seed. As a necessary result of this constitution, the soul, possessed and moved by these mighty though infant energies, is perpetually stretching beyond what is present and visible, struggling against the bounds of its earthly prisonhouse, and seeking relief and joy in imaginings of unseen...
Página 14 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 246 - ... exist. He only extracts and concentrates, as it were, life's ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys. And in this he does well; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence, and physical gratifications, but admits, in measures which may be indefinitely enlarged, sentiments and delights worthy of a higher being.
Página 190 - I say unto you, Swear not at all : neither by heaven ; for it is God's throne : nor by the earth ; for it is his footstool...
Página 21 - HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, • Ere the first day of death is fled — The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress — Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there — The fixed, yet tender traits, that streak The languor of the placid cheek...
Página 242 - We agree with Milton in his estimate of poetry. It seems to us the divinest of all arts ; for it is the breathing or expression of that principle or sentiment, which is deepest and sublimest in human nature...