The Book of Symbols: A Series of Seventy-five Short Essays on Morals, Religion, and Philosophy : Each Essay Illustrating an Ancient Symbol Or Moral PreceptChapman and Hall, 1847 - 506 pages |
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... conceive in his mind one of those ancient sepulchral chambers , in which darkness was made visible by the faint yet steady light of the everlasting lamp , and then all at once imagine it lighted up by a thousand torches , he may have an ...
... conceive in his mind one of those ancient sepulchral chambers , in which darkness was made visible by the faint yet steady light of the everlasting lamp , and then all at once imagine it lighted up by a thousand torches , he may have an ...
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... conceive , by what slow and gradual steps works of celebrity are brought to perfection . What is read with ease and fluency was produced by great labour and severe correction . The original idea , like the earth before the creation of ...
... conceive , by what slow and gradual steps works of celebrity are brought to perfection . What is read with ease and fluency was produced by great labour and severe correction . The original idea , like the earth before the creation of ...
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... conceived ; the great and abiding labours of man in science , literature , and philosophy have been perfected . It is from the soli- tary chamber of the student that the opinions of men ori- ginally came , though they seem to be the ...
... conceived ; the great and abiding labours of man in science , literature , and philosophy have been perfected . It is from the soli- tary chamber of the student that the opinions of men ori- ginally came , though they seem to be the ...
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... conceive than prac- tise the self - denial which has led some noble minds to leave their works to posterity without their names ; nor imitate others who have concealed themselves , as the authors , till old age has come upon them , when ...
... conceive than prac- tise the self - denial which has led some noble minds to leave their works to posterity without their names ; nor imitate others who have concealed themselves , as the authors , till old age has come upon them , when ...
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... conceive ; and away from it he is fretful and wretched , as a mother sepa- rated from her children . While courting ... conceived by the majority of men . What can shew this truth more than the fact , that while most men fly from its ...
... conceive ; and away from it he is fretful and wretched , as a mother sepa- rated from her children . While courting ... conceived by the majority of men . What can shew this truth more than the fact , that while most men fly from its ...
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Page 176 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 296 - tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung. And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
Page 178 - Because you are not merry : and 'twere as easy For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time : Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper, And other of such vinegar aspect That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
Page 295 - That the mighty Pan Was kindly come to live with them below ; Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
Page 6 - This worthless present was designed you long before it was a play; when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling over one another in the dark; when the fancy was yet in its first work, moving the sleeping images of things towards the light, there to be distinguished, and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment; it was yours, my Lord, before I could call it mine.
Page 65 - 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 26 - SOME in their discourse desire rather commendation of wit in being able to hold all arguments than of judgment in discerning what is true, as if it were a praise to know what might be said and not what should be thought.
Page 386 - Eas'd of her load, subjection grows more light, And poverty looks cheerful in thy sight: Thou mak'st the gloomy face of nature gay, Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day.
Page 291 - He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day, But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
Page 172 - O foolishness of men ! that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur, And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub, Praising the lean and sallow Abstinence...