Genius: And Other EssaysMoffat, Yard, 1911 - 288 páginas |
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... feeling of his schoolboy days , when he sat before a theme - Virtue , Industry , or Ambition - justly out of sorts with his task , if not with his teacher , and much in doubt how to begin it . But I am moved to touch upon the present ...
... feeling of his schoolboy days , when he sat before a theme - Virtue , Industry , or Ambition - justly out of sorts with his task , if not with his teacher , and much in doubt how to begin it . But I am moved to touch upon the present ...
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... feeling that the soul is itself divine and its own monitor . In modern times the word , very slightly inflected , has been more widely received into European languages , to express a mean- ing common to all , than almost any other Latin ...
... feeling that the soul is itself divine and its own monitor . In modern times the word , very slightly inflected , has been more widely received into European languages , to express a mean- ing common to all , than almost any other Latin ...
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... feeling that there must be something in an idea , a judgment , accepted by the many and the few and from generation to generation , -there must be some mission for a word which , al- though it be " soiled with all ignoble use , " I find ...
... feeling that there must be something in an idea , a judgment , accepted by the many and the few and from generation to generation , -there must be some mission for a word which , al- though it be " soiled with all ignoble use , " I find ...
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... feelings . " This does not conflict with a scientific diagnosis , as we shall presently see . Remove the investigation to the domain of psychology , and the law is still there ; we declare to the most plain - spoken realist that there ...
... feelings . " This does not conflict with a scientific diagnosis , as we shall presently see . Remove the investigation to the domain of psychology , and the law is still there ; we declare to the most plain - spoken realist that there ...
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... feels intensely , and which moreover , as if through inspiration , masters its field without the painful study to which they devote themselves , and with the careless felicity of nature itself . Nor are they quite without justification ...
... feels intensely , and which moreover , as if through inspiration , masters its field without the painful study to which they devote themselves , and with the careless felicity of nature itself . Nor are they quite without justification ...
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Página 85 - Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!
Página 283 - Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
Página 5 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Página 284 - That runaways' eyes may wink, and Romeo Leap to these arms, untalk'd of and unseen. \ Lovers can see to do their amorous rites By their own beauties ; or, if love be blind, It best agrees with night.
Página 26 - Good God, what a genius I had when I wrote that book!
Página 73 - If I had thought thou couldst have died, I might not weep for thee; But I forgot, when by thy side That thou couldst mortal be: It never through my mind had past The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more!
Página 208 - Then wakes the power which in the age of iron Burst forth to curb the great, and raise the low. Mark, where she stands, around her form I draw The awful circle of our solemn Church! Set but a foot within that holy ground, And on thy head — yea, though it wore a crown — I launch the curse of Rome!
Página 33 - ... parsons, who happen to fall in their way, and offend their eyes; but at the same time these wise reformers do not consider what an advantage and felicity it is for great wits to be always provided with objects of scorn and contempt, in order to exercise and improve their talents, and divert their spleen from falling on each other, or on themselves; especially when all this may be done without the least imaginable danger to their persons.
Página 73 - The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more ! And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain. But when I speak — thou dost not say What thou ne'er left'st...
Página 71 - METHINKS it is good to be here : If thou wilt, let us build — but for whom ? Nor Elias nor Moses appear ; But the shadows of eve that encompass with gloom The abode of the dead and the place of the tomb.