Society and SolitudeHoughton, Mifflin & Company, 1899 - 269 oldal |
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12. oldal
... feels . Each must stand on his glass tripod if he would keep his electricity . Even Swedenborg , whose theory of the universe is based on affection , and who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect , is constrained ...
... feels . Each must stand on his glass tripod if he would keep his electricity . Even Swedenborg , whose theory of the universe is based on affection , and who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect , is constrained ...
15. oldal
... man must be clothed with society , or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty , as of a displaced and unfurnished member . He is to be dressed in arts and institu " The tions , as well as in body - SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE . 15.
... man must be clothed with society , or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty , as of a displaced and unfurnished member . He is to be dressed in arts and institu " The tions , as well as in body - SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE . 15.
41. oldal
... feel , and to labor to express , the identity of their law . They are rays of one sun ; they trans- late each into a new language the sense of the other . They are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity contradistinguished from ...
... feel , and to labor to express , the identity of their law . They are rays of one sun ; they trans- late each into a new language the sense of the other . They are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity contradistinguished from ...
49. oldal
... feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all . - The effect of music belongs how much to the place , as the church , or the moonlight walk ; or to the company ; or , if on the stage , to what went be- fore in the play , or to ...
... feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all . - The effect of music belongs how much to the place , as the church , or the moonlight walk ; or to the company ; or , if on the stage , to what went be- fore in the play , or to ...
50. oldal
... feel himself to be the parent of his work , and is as much surprised at the effect as we , that we are so unwilling ... feeling with which he has inspired us . We hes- itate at doing Spenser so great an honor as to think that he intended ...
... feel himself to be the parent of his work , and is as much surprised at the effect as we , that we are so unwilling ... feeling with which he has inspired us . We hes- itate at doing Spenser so great an honor as to think that he intended ...
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232. oldal - Ah Ben ! Say how or .when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
185. oldal - Be sure, then, to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train. Dr. Johnson said, "he always went into stately shops...
279. oldal - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower...
186. oldal - The mathematics and the metaphysics, Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you ; No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en : In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
166. oldal - One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
258. oldal - He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
62. oldal - Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men...
32. oldal - These are traits, and measures, and modes; and the true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops,— no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
86. oldal - ... they are all pretty well acquainted with the object of the meeting ; they have all read the facts in the same newspapers. The orator possesses no information which his hearers have not ; yet he teaches them to see the thing with his eyes. By the new placing, the circumstances acquire new solidity and wor.th. Every fact gains consequence by his naming it, and' trifles become important. His expressions fix themselves in men's memories, and fly from mouth to mouth.
72. oldal - As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an hour as if I were the most culpable being on earth." In these examples, higher qualities have already entered, but the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech, and addressing the fancy and imagination, often exists without higher merits.