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... truth that is already understood , and which will not be denied . Sir William Jones said : " Ignorance is to the mind what extreme dark- ness is to the nerves : both cause an uneasy sensation ; and we naturally love knowledge as we love ...
... truth that is already understood , and which will not be denied . Sir William Jones said : " Ignorance is to the mind what extreme dark- ness is to the nerves : both cause an uneasy sensation ; and we naturally love knowledge as we love ...
Page 103
... , in passing through the crystal , beams of white light are decomposed into the colors of the rainbow , so , in traversing the soul of the poet , the colorless rays of truth are transformed into brightly - tinted poetry . "
... , in passing through the crystal , beams of white light are decomposed into the colors of the rainbow , so , in traversing the soul of the poet , the colorless rays of truth are transformed into brightly - tinted poetry . "
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... truth are transformed into brightly - tinted poetry . " Condensed into a metaphor , it becomes : " The white light of truth , in traversing the many - sided transparent soul of the poet , is refracted into iris - hued poetry . " 29 ...
... truth are transformed into brightly - tinted poetry . " Condensed into a metaphor , it becomes : " The white light of truth , in traversing the many - sided transparent soul of the poet , is refracted into iris - hued poetry . " 29 ...
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... truth stretching on and on into the deeps of eternity . The fascination of that placid splendor is as great upon him as when he first aspired to know . He yearns to begin a new voyage . He looks into the eyes of his fellows with a ...
... truth stretching on and on into the deeps of eternity . The fascination of that placid splendor is as great upon him as when he first aspired to know . He yearns to begin a new voyage . He looks into the eyes of his fellows with a ...
Page 120
... truth for the sake of the contrast , or to make it more verbal than real , while the ostentatious display of art in the style will displease , unless both the sound and sense are unobjectionable . 40. Should Antithesis be cultivated ...
... truth for the sake of the contrast , or to make it more verbal than real , while the ostentatious display of art in the style will displease , unless both the sound and sense are unobjectionable . 40. Should Antithesis be cultivated ...
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Page 203 - Are they Hebrews ? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham ? So am I.
Page 285 - I will bless the Lord at all times : His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord : The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 0 magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together.
Page 29 - And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son : make me as one of thy hired servants.
Page 318 - I impeach Warren Hastings of high crimes and misdemeanors. I impeach him in the name of the Commons' House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied.
Page 193 - Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof. A healthful old man, to whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace.
Page 202 - I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My...
Page 290 - Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame Hesperus with the host of Heaven came And, lo ! creation widened in man's view.
Page 211 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 158 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Page 148 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined and unknown.