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... objects where no brotherhood exists To passive minds . ” We common men love this beauty of the world , but do not comprehend it . We yearn towards it . Our heart has deepest affection for all the gentleness and awfulness of the world ...
... objects where no brotherhood exists To passive minds . ” We common men love this beauty of the world , but do not comprehend it . We yearn towards it . Our heart has deepest affection for all the gentleness and awfulness of the world ...
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... object of such earnestness . He makes the zeal supe- rior to that for which men are zealous . Rousseau and Napoleon he eulogizes as heroes , and reverences them ; although one by his writings , and the other by his ambition , filled ...
... object of such earnestness . He makes the zeal supe- rior to that for which men are zealous . Rousseau and Napoleon he eulogizes as heroes , and reverences them ; although one by his writings , and the other by his ambition , filled ...
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... objects they were alike conscientious . If they painted a flower , they strove to make it like a flower ; -they thought it no degradation to copy Nature . They felt it to be the highest honour to re - produce her beautiful works . But ...
... objects they were alike conscientious . If they painted a flower , they strove to make it like a flower ; -they thought it no degradation to copy Nature . They felt it to be the highest honour to re - produce her beautiful works . But ...
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... object . If art be imitation , perfection consists in identity . Goethe more truly defines art as representation . But this is only another word for truth ; not necessarily reality , for the real is but a low form of the true ; not ...
... object . If art be imitation , perfection consists in identity . Goethe more truly defines art as representation . But this is only another word for truth ; not necessarily reality , for the real is but a low form of the true ; not ...
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... object to it ; -when it makes men abject copyists , or leads them , by striving too hard for truth in trifles , to miss it in things great , -in seeking it in detail and finish , to lose truth of conception , and of effect also . A few ...
... object to it ; -when it makes men abject copyists , or leads them , by striving too hard for truth in trifles , to miss it in things great , -in seeking it in detail and finish , to lose truth of conception , and of effect also . A few ...
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Términos y frases comunes
angel awful beauty behold bend beneath BIRKENHEAD blessing bliss bright brothers cairngorm calm Carlyle Chartism Christ clouds Comus creed dark dead dear death dream earth eyes fair faith Falls the snow feel flowers gaze gleam gloaming glory God's golden grace Guenever hand happy hasty to condemn heart heaven holy hope John Milton John Ruskin kiss land light look loveliness Madonna melody mind mother mournful murmur nature Nearer to Thee never night noble o'er objects pain painted painter PEMBROKE COLLEGE poem poet poetry praise prayer Pre-Raphaelite PUBLISHED 1858 quiet RICKERBY Ruskin sacred seraphs shine sight sing skies smile soft song sorrow soul spirit stars strange stream SULTAN'S DAUGHTER sweet taste teach tears tender thine things THOMAS CARLYLE thou thought trembling true true songs truth unto unto the weak voice weary weeping words
Pasajes populares
Página 138 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Página 140 - Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save! Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus, By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys...
Página 98 - Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; At the Devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold...
Página 98 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays...
Página 142 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Página 139 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 138 - I was all ear, !(« And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death.
Página 142 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Página 138 - Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled...
Página 139 - 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 mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon.