Essays and Marginalia, Volume 1E. Moxon, 1851 - English literature |
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... possible . To the higher natures , all possible things are true ; the lower natures can have no conception of an unreal possibility . Neither , there- fore , can properly be supposed capable of melancholy . They may be sad indeed ; but ...
... possible . To the higher natures , all possible things are true ; the lower natures can have no conception of an unreal possibility . Neither , there- fore , can properly be supposed capable of melancholy . They may be sad indeed ; but ...
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... possible to be more real than reality . The religionist , like the philosopher , craves for eternity , but his appetite is not to be satisfied with such ethereal diet . He cannot live upon matterless forms , and truths that have no life ...
... possible to be more real than reality . The religionist , like the philosopher , craves for eternity , but his appetite is not to be satisfied with such ethereal diet . He cannot live upon matterless forms , and truths that have no life ...
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... possible , it would not be desirable ; for it must of necessity be false . There was a time , perhaps , when golden lands and fortunate islands were hidden in the vast ocean ; but now A PREFACE THAT MAY SERVE FOR ALL MODERN WORKS Page 3 ...
... possible , it would not be desirable ; for it must of necessity be false . There was a time , perhaps , when golden lands and fortunate islands were hidden in the vast ocean ; but now A PREFACE THAT MAY SERVE FOR ALL MODERN WORKS Page 3 ...
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... possible eternity of bliss or bale can never be indifferent . The idea of extinction is not terrible , simply because man cannot form such an idea at all . Let him try as long as DE OMNIBUS REBUS ET QUIBUSDAM ALIIS . 109.
... possible eternity of bliss or bale can never be indifferent . The idea of extinction is not terrible , simply because man cannot form such an idea at all . Let him try as long as DE OMNIBUS REBUS ET QUIBUSDAM ALIIS . 109.
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... possible , qualities of real women , -their house- hold affections — their perseverant love , unconquer- able by peril , by neglect , by unkindness , by hopeless- ness - strong even in the very abyss of weakness , and heroic amid the ...
... possible , qualities of real women , -their house- hold affections — their perseverant love , unconquer- able by peril , by neglect , by unkindness , by hopeless- ness - strong even in the very abyss of weakness , and heroic amid the ...
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Page 121 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ?. Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough Winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion...
Page 37 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 156 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 165 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 155 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Page 104 - Tis by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise; but, to converse with heaven— This is not easy:— to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosened from...
Page 172 - There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will.
Page 105 - Claudio; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 141 - 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 realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised...
Page 37 - They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names...