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Besides there is a peculiar pleasure in a true response ; it is the assurance of
equipoise in the universe . Thesc , if not true critics , come nearer the standard
than the subjective cluss , and the value of their work is ideal as well as historical
.
Besides there is a peculiar pleasure in a true response ; it is the assurance of
equipoise in the universe . Thesc , if not true critics , come nearer the standard
than the subjective cluss , and the value of their work is ideal as well as historical
.
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Surely.they inay be redeemed from their abuses , they may be turned to their true
uses . But how ? It were easy to say what they should not do . · They should not
have an object to carry or a cause to advocate , which obliges them either to ...
Surely.they inay be redeemed from their abuses , they may be turned to their true
uses . But how ? It were easy to say what they should not do . · They should not
have an object to carry or a cause to advocate , which obliges them either to ...
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... or igno . rantly prescribing how it might be better . What do you know of it ?
Whatever is good could not be otherwise than it is . Why will you not take what
suits you , and leave the rest ? True communion of thought is worship , not
criticism .
... or igno . rantly prescribing how it might be better . What do you know of it ?
Whatever is good could not be otherwise than it is . Why will you not take what
suits you , and leave the rest ? True communion of thought is worship , not
criticism .
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This , how strange soever it inay seem , I protest before the Eternal God , is true ;
neither am I any way superstitiously deceived hercin , since I did not only clearly
hear the noise , but in the screnest sky that ever I saw , being without all cloud ...
This , how strange soever it inay seem , I protest before the Eternal God , is true ;
neither am I any way superstitiously deceived hercin , since I did not only clearly
hear the noise , but in the screnest sky that ever I saw , being without all cloud ...
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Margaret Fuller Arthur Buckminster Fuller. THE TWO HERBERTS . 41 quires ,
have you never known fear lest you want purity to ra ceive the boon if granted ?
Lord H. - 1 do not count those weak moments , Gcorge ; they are not my true life .
Margaret Fuller Arthur Buckminster Fuller. THE TWO HERBERTS . 41 quires ,
have you never known fear lest you want purity to ra ceive the boon if granted ?
Lord H. - 1 do not count those weak moments , Gcorge ; they are not my true life .
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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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