Random readings for the rail, the river and the road1854 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admire amid animals beard beautiful birds bright caique Charles Lucien Bonaparte Child World Claude Fay coin copper cousin creature dark delight Don Cossack dress earth EMANUEL GEIBEL eyes face fancy fashion father feeling feet ferous Flamingo flowers followed girl give gold golden green hand handsome happy hath head hear heart Hever Castle honour horses Illyria Iona JOHN JAMES AUDUBON JULES JANIN King ladies land leaves light listening living look Lord LOUIS XV Maude mind morning nature never night noble Old Jacob passed poet poor pound pound sterling reader replied Roman Senators rose round Russian seems Shakspere shore silver sing somovar song sorrow soul sovereign stinging nettle sweet tell thee things thou thought trees turn Uncle voice wear wild wreath woman young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 39 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Seite 175 - Leave to enjoy myself. That place, that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels ; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account ; and in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues.
Seite 140 - tis the soul of peace : Of all the virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit : The first true gentleman, that ever breathed.
Seite 57 - Wise men have said, are wearisome ; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek ?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
Seite 33 - The travellers swarm forth from the cars. All are full of the momentum which they have caught from their mode of convey-ance. It seems as if the whole world, both morally and physically, were detached from its old standfasts and set in rapid motion.
Seite 52 - Sometimes a single word, spoken by the voice of genius, goes far into the heart. A hint, a suggestion, an undefined delicacy of expression, teaches more than we gather from volumes of less gifted men. The works which we should chiefly study, are not those which contain the greatest fund of knowledge, but which raise us into sympathy with the intellectual energy of the author, and through which a great mind multiplies itself, as it were, in the reader.
Seite 39 - We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions ; whence savage clans, and roving barbarians, derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the...
Seite 52 - They bear the impress of that seal by which genius distinguishes its productions from works of learning and taste. The great and decisive test of genius is, that it calls forth power in the souls of others. It not merely gives knowledge, but breathes energy. There are authors, and among these Milton holds the 'highest rank, in approaching whom we are conscious of an access of intellectual strength. A " virtue goes out
Seite 39 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Seite 28 - Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With scented breath, and look so like a smile, Seems, as it issues from the shapeless mould, An emanation of the indwelling Life, A visible token of the upholding Love, That are the soul of this wide universe.