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... mind , because it was the problem for solving all problems . It was like those general formulas which the mathematician seeks , by means of which he may resolve a great number of particular questions . They did not claim to have ...
... mind , because it was the problem for solving all problems . It was like those general formulas which the mathematician seeks , by means of which he may resolve a great number of particular questions . They did not claim to have ...
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... mind makes its entrance into a subject , then upon its intrinsic adaptation to the case in hand depends the whole success of the inquiry . If the method be a truly philosophic one , the examination of the topic proceeds with ease ...
... mind makes its entrance into a subject , then upon its intrinsic adaptation to the case in hand depends the whole success of the inquiry . If the method be a truly philosophic one , the examination of the topic proceeds with ease ...
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... mind inspired by it attacks a subject with great impetuosity , and yet does not mar or mutilate it , while it penetrates into all its parts . I have seen Michael Angelo ' says a contempo- rary of that great artist ' at work after he had ...
... mind inspired by it attacks a subject with great impetuosity , and yet does not mar or mutilate it , while it penetrates into all its parts . I have seen Michael Angelo ' says a contempo- rary of that great artist ' at work after he had ...
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... mind — a pleasure that is missed by those ignorant of this truth . The more realities an artist indicates in any given amount of work , the more faculties does he appeal to ; the more numerous ideas does he suggest ; the more ...
... mind — a pleasure that is missed by those ignorant of this truth . The more realities an artist indicates in any given amount of work , the more faculties does he appeal to ; the more numerous ideas does he suggest ; the more ...
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... mind as in the mind of a geologist who knows that over this rock a glacier slid a million years ago ? The truth is that those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits are blind to most of the poetry by which they are surrounded ...
... mind as in the mind of a geologist who knows that over this rock a glacier slid a million years ago ? The truth is that those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits are blind to most of the poetry by which they are surrounded ...
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Page 170 - O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid, did. Agr: O, rare for Antony! Eno: Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Page 223 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
Page 54 - Milton as lessons: and they were the lessons too, which required most time and trouble to bring up, so as to escape his censure. I learned from him, that poetry, even that of the loftiest and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position...
Page 68 - ... from the end of one line to the beginning of the next, but writes them just below the rest of the word and draws a loop around them.
Page 150 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 187 - I have gone the whole round of creation: I saw and I spoke. I, a work of God's hand for that purpose, received in my brain, And pronounced on, the rest of his handwork, — returned him again His creation's approval or censure; I spoke as I saw. I report, as a man may of God's work: all's love, yet all's law.
Page 224 - For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Page 223 - This spiritual Love acts not nor can exist Without Imagination, which, in truth, Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And Reason in her most exalted mood.
Page 88 - Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I knew it; and tried again, and was again unsuccessful and always unsuccessful; but at least in these vain bouts, 1 got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction and the co-ordination of...
Page 17 - All the objects which are exhibited to our view by nature, upon close examination will be found to have their blemishes and defects. The most beautiful forms have something about them like weakness, minuteness, or imperfection.