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Page 85 - I call an idea great in proportion as it is received by a higher faculty of the mind, and as it more fully occupies, and in occupying, exercises and exalts, the faculty by which it is received.
Page 327 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It hath God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter!"— The REv.
Page 52 - I remember to have heard him say, when speaking of his continual interruptions, " I see in this world two heaps, of human happiness and misery ; now if I can take but the smallest bit from one heap and add to the other, I carry a point. If, as I go home, a child has dropped a halfpenny, and if, by giving- it another, I can wipe away its tears, I feel I have done something. I should be glad indeed to do greater things, but I will not neglect this.
Page 275 - Sorrow's tear. Nothing is lost on him who sees With an eye that Feeling gave ; — For him there's a story in every breeze, And a picture in every wave.
Page 208 - And now, wholly and for ever, passed away that sorrowful look of seeking for something never found. It was found. I think a mother, entirely and eternally sure of her son's perfect reverence and love, need not be jealous of any other love, not even for a wife. There is, in every good man's heart, a sublime strength and purity of attachment, which he never does feel, never can feel, for any woman on earth except his mother.
Page 85 - ... that is, not as they are felt by the eye only, but as they are received by the mind through the eye. So that, if I say that the greatest picture is that which conveys to the mind of the spectator the greatest number of the greatest ideas, I have a definition which will include as subjects of comparison every pleasure which art is capable of conveying.
Page 254 - Is it an instinct of mortality? the "bright must fade" of the poet? a shadowy regret for Dives, who, no more than Lazarus, can secure enjoyment for a day? or is it a vague yearning for something more perfect still ? — a longing of the soul for the unattainable, which, more than all the philosophy in the universe, argues the necessity of a future state. I could not analyse my feelings. I did not then believe that others experienced the same sensations as myself. I only knew that, like Parson Hugh,...
Page 254 - ... the giant elms that stirred and flickered in the summer breeze. The mere was glittering at our feet, and the distant uplands melting away into the golden haze of summer. Child as I was, I could have cried, without knowing why, as I sat there on the grass, drinking in beauty at every pore. What is it that gives to all beauty, animate or inanimate, a tinge of melancholy? — the greater the beauty, the deeper the tinge. Is it an instinct of mortality? the "bright must fade
Page 84 - Is thrill'd as in the presence of divinity! Pictures, bright pictures, oh ! they are to me A world for mind to revel in. I love To give a history to every face, to think, — As I thought with the painter, — as I knew What his high communing had been.
Page 274 - A schoolmaster should know how to sing," said he at another time, " or else I will not so much as look at him." One day, as certain of his friends were singing some beautiful chants at his house, he exclaimed with enthusiasm : " If our Lord God has scattered such admirable gifts on this earth, which is but a dark corner, what will it not be in the life eternal, in which all will be perfection !" Since Luther's time, the people have sung; the Bible inspired their songs, and the impulse given at the...