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... genius . It will be allowed both by his admirers and his de- spisers , that he excels equally in prose and in verse , that he is equally untrammelled in both , and that his best friends would find a difficulty if they were called upon ...
... genius . It will be allowed both by his admirers and his de- spisers , that he excels equally in prose and in verse , that he is equally untrammelled in both , and that his best friends would find a difficulty if they were called upon ...
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... genius of the people . In Scotland , at the present day , I think the orthodox length of sermons is from half an hour to three quarters . In England , it is about half as long . For my own part , though preferring the latter , I don't ...
... genius of the people . In Scotland , at the present day , I think the orthodox length of sermons is from half an hour to three quarters . In England , it is about half as long . For my own part , though preferring the latter , I don't ...
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... genius , he must , therefore , take up a pen and go on inditing . He emphatically believes and preaches , that " com- mon souls pay with what they do ; nobler souls with that which they are . " A day spent in reclining under the shade ...
... genius , he must , therefore , take up a pen and go on inditing . He emphatically believes and preaches , that " com- mon souls pay with what they do ; nobler souls with that which they are . " A day spent in reclining under the shade ...
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... genius . Let them dissent entirely from his theology , which we hold to be very dangerous , and which wer wish we had ministers in the different churches in Britain , qualified to refute rather than to vilify : but why should they make ...
... genius . Let them dissent entirely from his theology , which we hold to be very dangerous , and which wer wish we had ministers in the different churches in Britain , qualified to refute rather than to vilify : but why should they make ...
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... genius of every man , for these are but human organs of the Divine Being . The soul of man - according to Emerson- is not the work , not even the seed , but the very self of God circumstan- ced in human nature . We are not made after ...
... genius of every man , for these are but human organs of the Divine Being . The soul of man - according to Emerson- is not the work , not even the seed , but the very self of God circumstan- ced in human nature . We are not made after ...
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Seite 321 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Seite 322 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint...
Seite 320 - Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath...
Seite 45 - ... daily miracle shines, as the character ascends. But the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression ; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.
Seite 327 - And there were voices and thunders and lightnings ; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake and so great.
Seite 45 - Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his World. He said, in this jubilee of sublime emotion, "I am divine. Through me, God acts; through me, speaks. Would you see God, see me; or see thee, when thou also thinkest as I now think.
Seite 325 - Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth ! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Seite 325 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret...
Seite 164 - Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be, in England, seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny : the threehooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass.