Dante in his relation to the theology and ethics of the Middle Ages. Goethe and philosophy. Rousseau. Wordsworth. The problem of philosophy at the present time. The genius of CarlyleJ. Maclehose and sons, 1892 |
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... Accepting the dualism of the Middle Age , Dante can transcend it only by the double reflection of each world upon the other . The meaning of this last statement will become clearer , if we consider for a moment the nature and origin of ...
... Accepting the dualism of the Middle Age , Dante can transcend it only by the double reflection of each world upon the other . The meaning of this last statement will become clearer , if we consider for a moment the nature and origin of ...
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... accepted and of those who rejected it , a revolutionary idealism , which , as it turned the cross into the highest symbol of honour , seemed to invert all the old standards . of excellence , and all the old criteria of truth . " Those ...
... accepted and of those who rejected it , a revolutionary idealism , which , as it turned the cross into the highest symbol of honour , seemed to invert all the old standards . of excellence , and all the old criteria of truth . " Those ...
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... accepted the world's law , but because it stood so far off from that law that it could easily avoid any conflict with it : because , in the idealism of its faith , it could treat the whole order of secular life as something ex- traneous ...
... accepted the world's law , but because it stood so far off from that law that it could easily avoid any conflict with it : because , in the idealism of its faith , it could treat the whole order of secular life as something ex- traneous ...
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... Nay , if the medieval saint could believe that nature had so died to live , " he could even accept its voice as divine . On this point , however , he was very difficult to reassure ; he was , indeed , 22 THEOLOGY AND ETHICS OF DANTE .
... Nay , if the medieval saint could believe that nature had so died to live , " he could even accept its voice as divine . On this point , however , he was very difficult to reassure ; he was , indeed , 22 THEOLOGY AND ETHICS OF DANTE .
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... accepting without a shadow of a doubt or hesitation all the constitutive ideas of mediæval thought and life , he grasped them so firmly and gave them such lumin- ous expression that the spirit in them broke away from the form . The ...
... accepting without a shadow of a doubt or hesitation all the constitutive ideas of mediæval thought and life , he grasped them so firmly and gave them such lumin- ous expression that the spirit in them broke away from the form . The ...
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Página 182 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Página 176 - Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake.
Página 163 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Página 165 - Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and power, and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing...
Página 220 - There was the Door to which I found no Key ; There was the Veil through which I might not see : Some little talk awhile of ME and THEE There was — and then no more of THEE and ME.
Página 180 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Página 245 - ... or dresses, do, according to certain compositions, receive different appellations. If one of them be trimmed up with a gold chain, and a red gown, and a white rod, and a great horse, it is called a...
Página 210 - Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear; And struck his finger on the place, And said: Thou ailest here, and here!
Página 158 - While, smitten by a lofty moon, The encircling laurels, thick with leaves, Gave back a rich and dazzling sheen, That overpowered their natural green. Through hill and valley every breeze Had sunk to rest with folded wings: Keen was the air, but could not freeze Nor check the music of the strings ; So stout and hardy were the band That scraped the chords with strenuous hand. And who but listened ! — till was paid Respect to every Inmate's claim...
Página 220 - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went.