The Works of Sir Henry Taylor, Issue 73, Volume 5H. S. King & Company, 1878 |
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... Will it be said , then , that the relation is meant to be comic ? -a comic narrative , merely adumbrating such matter of serious thought as all truth is pregnant with , when regarded with a philosophic mind ? WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS .
... Will it be said , then , that the relation is meant to be comic ? -a comic narrative , merely adumbrating such matter of serious thought as all truth is pregnant with , when regarded with a philosophic mind ? WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS .
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Sir Henry Taylor. pregnant with , when regarded with a philosophic mind ? But if the poem is to be so considered , then the comic effect , resulting as it does chiefly from the narration in verse of matters of fact which when there ...
Sir Henry Taylor. pregnant with , when regarded with a philosophic mind ? But if the poem is to be so considered , then the comic effect , resulting as it does chiefly from the narration in verse of matters of fact which when there ...
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... philosophic thinker is , not his view of the primary principles of psychological philosophy , nor the trains of ratiocination by which he descends to those which are secondary and derivative : it consists not so much in reasoning as in ...
... philosophic thinker is , not his view of the primary principles of psychological philosophy , nor the trains of ratiocination by which he descends to those which are secondary and derivative : it consists not so much in reasoning as in ...
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... philosophic perceptions of truth , various and composite as they are , come to have a certain unity . of drift , which has given to his writings the character of embodying a peculiar system of philosophy . But to some readers poetry ...
... philosophic perceptions of truth , various and composite as they are , come to have a certain unity . of drift , which has given to his writings the character of embodying a peculiar system of philosophy . But to some readers poetry ...
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... be another Wordsworth , another philosophic poet , or rather a pupil apt for becoming such , and then the injunctions which it contains are admirably calculated to train him in the way that he should go 18 WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS .
... be another Wordsworth , another philosophic poet , or rather a pupil apt for becoming such , and then the injunctions which it contains are admirably calculated to train him in the way that he should go 18 WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS .
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Page 13 - II. Physics and Politics ; or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "Natural Selection " and " Inheritance
Page 110 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 27 - To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened...
Page 52 - ... tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
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Page 64 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, ' A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own.
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Page 110 - Say there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 4 - The Principles of Mental Physiology. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions.
Page 7 - MA Prayers, with a Discourse on Prayer. Edited by his Wife. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo. Price 6s. Sermons on Disputed Points and Special Occasions. Edited by his Wife. Third Edition. Crown 8vo.