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admiration Aeneid Aeschylus aesthetic agreeable animal appear artist association Assyrians Bacchae beasts BEAUTIFUL IN NATURE believe birds Book of Job Christian clouds Clytaemnestra colour delight development of taste divine earth Egyptians emotion of sublimity especially Euripides existence experience expression fact fear feeling flowers give glory gods grandeur Grant Allen Greeks heaven hills human idea imagination individual John F. W. Herschel judgment landscape light look Lucretius ment mind modern moral motion mountains nations night objects optic nerve ourselves outward painting perceived perhaps philosophy picture picturesque pleasure poetry poets question reality reason relation Relativity of Knowledge scene scenery seen sensation sense sentiment sexual selection shore Sirmio song Sophocles soul sound speak spirit standard of taste supposed Theocritus theory things thou thought tion trees true truth ugly unity universe Virgil woods
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Page 116 - sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold : There's not the smallest
Page 147 - colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ! Another race hath been and other palms are won, Thanks to the human heart by which we live ; Thanks to its tenderness, its joys and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 147 - hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that
Page 317 - O the one life within us and abroad Which meets all motion and becomes its soul, A light in sound, a sound-like power in light, Rhythm in all thought, and joyance everywhere— Methinks, it should have been impossible Not to love all things in a world so filled
Page 55 - As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the shepherd gladdens in his heart.
Page 122 - These as they change, Almighty Father ! these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love.
Page 45 - Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; Let the field exult, and all that is therein ; Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy Before the Lord ; for He cometh ; For He cometh to judge the earth ; He shall judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with His truth.
Page 145 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparell'd in celestial light, The glory and the
Page 146 - And 0 ye fountains, meadows, hills, and groves, Think not of any severing of our lives ! Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might : I only have relinquish'd one delight, To live beneath your
Page 82 - one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown ! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.