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I feel with satisfaction that I have done a good deal to extend the influence of the
great minds of Germany and Italy among my compatriots . Of our English
contemporaries , as yet but partially known here , I have written notices of Milnes
...
I feel with satisfaction that I have done a good deal to extend the influence of the
great minds of Germany and Italy among my compatriots . Of our English
contemporaries , as yet but partially known here , I have written notices of Milnes
...
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But the mo ment we look for a principle , we feel the need of a criterion , of a
standard ; and then we say what the work is not , as well as what it is ; and this is
as healthy though not as grateful and gracious an operation of the mind as the
other .
But the mo ment we look for a principle , we feel the need of a criterion , of a
standard ; and then we say what the work is not , as well as what it is ; and this is
as healthy though not as grateful and gracious an operation of the mind as the
other .
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Thero is a languid feeling about them , an inclination to suspect the justice of their
verdicts , the value of their criticisms . But their golden age cannot be quite past .
They afford too . convenient a vehicle for the transmission of knowledge ; they ...
Thero is a languid feeling about them , an inclination to suspect the justice of their
verdicts , the value of their criticisms . But their golden age cannot be quite past .
They afford too . convenient a vehicle for the transmission of knowledge ; they ...
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I cannot pass on till I know what I feel and why . An object that defies my ut . most
rigor of scrutiny is a new step on the stair I am making to the Olyınpian tables .
Poet . I think you will not know the gods when you get there , if I may judge from
the ...
I cannot pass on till I know what I feel and why . An object that defies my ut . most
rigor of scrutiny is a new step on the stair I am making to the Olyınpian tables .
Poet . I think you will not know the gods when you get there , if I may judge from
the ...
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... of feeling rather than experience . A penetrating sweetness beamed from bim
on the observer , who was rather raised and softened in hiinself than drawn to
think of the being who infused this heavenly fire into his veins . Like the violet ,
the ...
... of feeling rather than experience . A penetrating sweetness beamed from bim
on the observer , who was rather raised and softened in hiinself than drawn to
think of the being who infused this heavenly fire into his veins . Like the violet ,
the ...
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Page 81 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.
Page 103 - The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers.
Page 85 - The wind, the tempest roaring high, The tumult of a Tropic sky, Might well be dangerous food For him, a Youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of Heaven, And such impetuous blood.
Page 255 - Who comprehends his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim; And...
Page 81 - Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, singing hymns unbidden till the world is wrought to sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.
Page 33 - Veritate, in my hand, and, kneeling on my knees, devoutly said these words: — ' ' O thou eternal God, Author of the light which now shines upon me, and Giver of all inward illuminations, I do beseech Thee, of Thy infinite goodness, to pardon a greater request than a sinner ought to make ; I am not satisfied enough whether I shall publish this book, De Veritate; if it be for Thy glory, I beseech Thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
Page 335 - Walked of yore the Master-Singers, chanting rude poetic strains. From remote and sunless suburbs came they to the friendly guild, Building nests in Fame's great temple, as in spouts the swallows build.
Page 97 - All this long eve, so balmy and serene, Have I been gazing on the western sky, And its peculiar tint of yellow green : And still I gaze — and with how blank an eye...
Page 83 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear: If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.
Page 167 - ... service with unceasing care, The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For nought but what thy happiness could spare. Speak — though this soft warm heart, once free to hold A thousand tender pleasures, thine and mine, Be left more desolate, more dreary cold Than a forsaken bird's-nest filled with snow 'Mid its own bush of leafless eglantine — Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know ! TO BR HAYDON, ON SEEING HIS PICTURE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE ON THE ISLAND OF ST.
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| Title | Art, Literature, and the Drama, Volume 3 Art, Literature, and the Drama, Arthur Buckminster Fuller Lucy Hargrett Draper Center and Archives for the Study of the Rights of Women in History and Law |
| Author | Margaret Fuller |
| Editor | Arthur Buckminster Fuller |
| Publisher | Roberts brothers, 1875 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 20 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 449 pages |
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