Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United KingdomJ. Murray, 1899 - English literature |
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... never have occurred in Asia , where the only criterion of truth , and the only evidence they appear to under- stand , are the utterances of official authority . It is this essential difference in temperament also which will render for ...
... never have occurred in Asia , where the only criterion of truth , and the only evidence they appear to under- stand , are the utterances of official authority . It is this essential difference in temperament also which will render for ...
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... never content with facts till he can convert them into principles , nor the latter with principles till he can connect them with facts . " An interesting indication of the non - subjective temperament of the Anglo - Saxons is the ...
... never content with facts till he can convert them into principles , nor the latter with principles till he can connect them with facts . " An interesting indication of the non - subjective temperament of the Anglo - Saxons is the ...
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... ever returning on itself but never affecting the life ; while with the other it frets the soul like an imprisoned spirit until T it has worked its way out into conduct and action RACIAL AND INDIVIDUAL TEMPERAMENTS . 31.
... ever returning on itself but never affecting the life ; while with the other it frets the soul like an imprisoned spirit until T it has worked its way out into conduct and action RACIAL AND INDIVIDUAL TEMPERAMENTS . 31.
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... never been under culture . Where towns and cities have been built , of course , not a few have been removed , as at St. Louis , Cincinnati , Marietta , & c . , but these cities have still extensive works in their vicinities , which act ...
... never been under culture . Where towns and cities have been built , of course , not a few have been removed , as at St. Louis , Cincinnati , Marietta , & c . , but these cities have still extensive works in their vicinities , which act ...
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... never before published illus- trations , the letters of the respective dates of my travels are essen- tial at a period when removal and destruction are rife to an extent that in no previous age has existed . The caution against danger ...
... never before published illus- trations , the letters of the respective dates of my travels are essen- tial at a period when removal and destruction are rife to an extent that in no previous age has existed . The caution against danger ...
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Page 90 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days: There, ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere...
Page 109 - And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness, and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute 's at end, And the elements...
Page 106 - tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your Teacher.
Page 83 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 96 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized.
Page 222 - Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Page 97 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind ; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be ; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering ; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Page 91 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 106 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Page 37 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...