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... position in any line were deserting him , at least for a time . It is suggested , that " interspersed throughout the works of Schelling , glimpses and indications are to be found of some stupendous theory on the subject of the ...
... position in any line were deserting him , at least for a time . It is suggested , that " interspersed throughout the works of Schelling , glimpses and indications are to be found of some stupendous theory on the subject of the ...
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... positions , has been evolved from the depths of his spirit by his own independent efforts ; this has certainly more relation to the wrought honey than to the raw . My father's allegation , that the principal points of Schelling's sys ...
... positions , has been evolved from the depths of his spirit by his own independent efforts ; this has certainly more relation to the wrought honey than to the raw . My father's allegation , that the principal points of Schelling's sys ...
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... position : for another reason , more deeply concerning , I must contend , that his having neither added to , nor varied from , the doc- trines of Schelling does not make it clear as noon - day , that he had not some original insight ...
... position : for another reason , more deeply concerning , I must contend , that his having neither added to , nor varied from , the doc- trines of Schelling does not make it clear as noon - day , that he had not some original insight ...
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... position led him to be ever seeking matter for new thought , rather than labouring to reduce into present- able order that which he had already acquired ; let us further suppose that , before he had given expression to his views in a ...
... position led him to be ever seeking matter for new thought , rather than labouring to reduce into present- able order that which he had already acquired ; let us further suppose that , before he had given expression to his views in a ...
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... positions by contradiction ; so incautious and dreamy was he . It seems as if he was ever dreaming of blows and caring for them no more than for the blows of a dream . How much strength of memory may co - exist with weakness , the ...
... positions by contradiction ; so incautious and dreamy was he . It seems as if he was ever dreaming of blows and caring for them no more than for the blows of a dream . How much strength of memory may co - exist with weakness , the ...
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Page 77 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 33 - Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read ; And tongues to be, your being shall rehearse, When all the breathers of this world are dead ; You still shall live (such virtue hath my pen) Where breath most breathes,—even in the mouths of men.
Page xix - ... nor pair, nor build, nor sing. Yet well I ken the banks where Amaranths blow, Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow. Bloom, O ye Amaranths ! bloom for whom ye may, For me ye bloom not ! Glide, rich streams, away ! With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll : And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul ? WORK WITHOUT HOPE draws nectar in a sieve, And HOPE without an object cannot live.
Page 7 - I learnt 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.
Page 15 - My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not to think of what I needs must feel But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan; Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Page 19 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 229 - Keen pangs of Love, awakening as a babe Turbulent, with an outcry in the heart ; And fears self-willed, that shunned the eye of hope ; And hope that scarce would know itself from fear ; Sense of past youth, and manhood come in vain, And genius given, and knowledge won in vain...
Page 327 - But our ideas being nothing but actual perceptions in the mind, which cease to be any thing when there is no perception of them, this laying up of our ideas in the repository of the memory signifies no more but this, that the mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had, with this additional perception annexed to them, that it has had them before.
Page 81 - The Fancy brings together images which have no connection natural or moral, but are yoked together by the poet by means of some accidental coincidence...
Page 7 - English compositions (at least for the last three years of our school education), he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words. Lute, harp, and lyre; Muse, Muses, and inspirations ; Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene were all an abomination to him.