Day-dreams of a Butterfly: In Nine PartsJ. M. Creighton, printer, 1854 - 156 Seiten |
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Ammonite animals APPENDIX Arachne astral beams beauty blue boundless brain Bridgewater Treatise bright butterfly Carboniferous cause clouds cold coprolites creatures dark depths descries disc doth dream e'en earth enshined eternity ev'ry existence eye Of mind fair fancy firmaments fish flower force Ganoids glorious glowing Godhead GOETHE golden green hath Heaven hope hues hypothesis Ichthyosaur Iguanodon invertebrate laws life's light man's Manso mantle matter mind mind's moon mysteriously nature nature's Neath nebulæ Novalis o'er objects ocean orbits paints Permian planets Plesiosaur Pterodactyl reptile resolved rich ring roll rotation round seems seen sense sight Silurian Sir William Jones skies soft solar solar system soul soul's space sphere spirit stars strong sublime sunbeams sweet telescope things thou thought thro throne Time's tion tree Trilobite truth unfold vast Vestiges whole wings wondrous wrought Zoophyte
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Seite 49 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Seite 153 - Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion, not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture which God paints on the instant eternity for the contemplation of the soul.
Seite 155 - It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind, and so makes it the receiver of a certain number of congruent sensations, which we call sun and moon, man and woman, house and trade.
Seite 7 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze!
Seite 155 - In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
Seite 153 - To a Transcendentalist, Matter has an existence, but only as a Phenomenon : were we not there, neither would it be there; it is a mere Relation, or rather the result of a Relation between our living Souls and the great First Cause...
Seite 146 - It is from considering the relations which the several appetites and passions in the inward frame have to each other, and, above all, the SUPREMACY of reflection or conscience, that we get the idea of the system or constitution of human nature. And from the idea itself, it will as fully appear, that this our nature, ie constitution, is adapted to virtue, as from the idea of a watch it appears, that its nature, ie constitution or system, is adapted to measure time.
Seite 135 - Being's floods, in Action's storm, I walk and work, above, beneath, Work and weave in endless motion ! Birth and Death, An infinite ocean ; A seizing and giving The fire of Living : 'Tis thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the Garment thou seest Him by.
Seite 141 - almost always seen to assume, at the instant of their formation, a movement of rotation upon themselves — a movement which constantly takes place in the same direction as that of the ring. Moreover, as the ring, at the instant of its rupture, had still a remainder of velocity, the spheres to which it has given birth tend to fly off at a tangent ; but as, on the other side, the...