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... pass univer- presence and existence of beauty in particular sally by the same name , and be recognised objects , among men whose organization is as the peculiar object of a separate sense or perfect , and who are plainly possessed of ...
... pass univer- presence and existence of beauty in particular sally by the same name , and be recognised objects , among men whose organization is as the peculiar object of a separate sense or perfect , and who are plainly possessed of ...
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... pass , at least at a distance , for its certain causes and attendants . The beauty of fitness and adaptation of parts , even in the works of nature , is derived from the same fountain- partly by means of its obvious analogy to works of ...
... pass , at least at a distance , for its certain causes and attendants . The beauty of fitness and adaptation of parts , even in the works of nature , is derived from the same fountain- partly by means of its obvious analogy to works of ...
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... pass familiarly the admitted beauty of such very opposite under one and the same name . Beauty con- proportions in the Gothic . Opposite as they sists confessedly , in almost all cases , in the are , however , the great elements of ...
... pass familiarly the admitted beauty of such very opposite under one and the same name . Beauty con- proportions in the Gothic . Opposite as they sists confessedly , in almost all cases , in the are , however , the great elements of ...
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... pass under their name . This caution will appear still more reasonable , when it is con- sidered , that all the other qualities of visible objects , except only their colours , are now admitted to be perfectly indifferent in them ...
... pass under their name . This caution will appear still more reasonable , when it is con- sidered , that all the other qualities of visible objects , except only their colours , are now admitted to be perfectly indifferent in them ...
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... pass into tints of this description : -nor can we at pre- sent recollect any one colour , which we could specify as in itself disagreeable , without run- ning counter to the feelings and the practice of the great mass of mankind . If ...
... pass into tints of this description : -nor can we at pre- sent recollect any one colour , which we could specify as in itself disagreeable , without run- ning counter to the feelings and the practice of the great mass of mankind . If ...
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Page 310 - O ! let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Page 412 - Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store ? Sometimes, whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind...
Page 330 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful ! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learned the language of another world.
Page 411 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret...
Page 435 - This makes the madmen who have made men mad By their contagion ; Conquerors and Kings, Founders of sects and systems, to whom add Sophists, Bards, Statesmen, all unquiet things Which stir too strongly the soul's secret springs...
Page 411 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
Page 435 - Clarens ! sweet Clarens, birthplace of deep Love ! Thine air is the young breath of passionate thought ; Thy trees take root in Love ; the snows above The very Glaciers have his colours caught, And sun-set into rose-hues sees them wrought By rays which sleep there lovingly...
Page 435 - But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane ; there is a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell In its own narrow being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire ; And, but once kindled, quenchless evermore, Preys upon high adventure, nor can tire Of aught but rest ; a fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore.
Page 328 - How glorious in its action and itself ! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will, Till our mortality predominates, And men are — what they name not to themselves, And trust not to each other.
Page 436 - And this is in the night: — Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee!