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... Nature , and leave them to mere like enongh to the long , plaintive notes of the
metrtsottishness and brutality . Yet perhaps the May games died out , partiy ,
beingale to say all that the poet has to say , again and again , through all his
stanzas ...
... Nature , and leave them to mere like enongh to the long , plaintive notes of the
metrtsottishness and brutality . Yet perhaps the May games died out , partiy ,
beingale to say all that the poet has to say , again and again , through all his
stanzas ...
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... s nature ' and your " human nature ' thodox , while we hail as truly scientific ,
Wordsdiffer only in degree , but not in kind . ... half create , is honest and
industrious ( as it is now it can do And what perceive ; well pleased to recognize
In Nature ...
... s nature ' and your " human nature ' thodox , while we hail as truly scientific ,
Wordsdiffer only in degree , but not in kind . ... half create , is honest and
industrious ( as it is now it can do And what perceive ; well pleased to recognize
In Nature ...
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And take the trouble of keeping it up to please him , once then she goes on to say
that " there are faces which the necessity for pleasing him seems to depart with
Nature charges with a meaning and a pathos not marriage , than she will take ...
And take the trouble of keeping it up to please him , once then she goes on to say
that " there are faces which the necessity for pleasing him seems to depart with
Nature charges with a meaning and a pathos not marriage , than she will take ...
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Attempts have been made by religious men to It is scarcely necessary to add that
long before bring the Scripture miracles within the scope of the the return of the
bride and bridegroom , Mr . Mer order of nature , but all such attempts are ...
Attempts have been made by religious men to It is scarcely necessary to add that
long before bring the Scripture miracles within the scope of the the return of the
bride and bridegroom , Mr . Mer order of nature , but all such attempts are ...
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They Each of them assumes that Nature , instead of flow - must urge the reason
to accept the conclusion from ing ever ... As regards direct action upon natural of
real religion , which is an affair of the heart , but phenomena , man ' s will is ...
They Each of them assumes that Nature , instead of flow - must urge the reason
to accept the conclusion from ing ever ... As regards direct action upon natural of
real religion , which is an affair of the heart , but phenomena , man ' s will is ...
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Page 18 - In behint yon auld fail dyke I wot there lies a new-slain Knight; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. ' His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame,. His lady's...
Page 121 - The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying from one end of society to the other, the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time...
Page 121 - ... monuments will accumulate, and works far more perfect than the works of Lessing and Herder will be produced in Germany; and yet the names of these two men will fill a German with a reverence and enthusiasm such as the names of the most gifted masters will hardly awaken. And why ? Because they humanised knowledge; because they broadened the basis of life and intelligence; because they worked powerfully to diffuse sweetness and light, to make reason and the will of God prevail.
Page 21 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods And mountains, and of all that we behold From this green earth, of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create And what perceive ; well pleased to recognize In Nature and the language of the sense The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.
Page 19 - Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch ! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit...
Page 119 - Violent indignation with the past, abstract systems of renovation applied wholesale, a new doctrine drawn up in black and white for elaborating down to the very smallest details a rational society for the future — these are the ways of Jacobinism.
Page 121 - Let us not leave thee alone to make in the secret of thy knowledge, as thou didst before the creation of the firmament, the division of light from darkness; let the children of thy spirit, placed in their firmament, make their light shine upon the earth, mark the division of night and day, and announce the revolution of the times; for the old order is passed, and the new arises; the night is spent, the day is come forth; and thou...
Page 121 - It does not try to teach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely,— nourished and not bound by them.
Page 113 - But the aspirations of culture, which is the study of perfection, are not satisfied, unless what men say, when they may say what they like, is worth saying, — has good in it, and more good than bad.
Page 408 - The smooth, soft air with pulse-like waves Flows murmuring through its hidden caves, ] ° Whose streams of brightening purple rush. Fired with a new and livelier blush. While all their burden of decay The ebbing current steals away, And red with Nature's flame they start From the warm fountains of the heart.