Education and the Higher LifeA.C. McClurg, 1890 - 210 pagine |
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Pagina 41 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Pagina 204 - I hold you will not compass your poor ends Of barley-feeding and material ease, Without a poet's individualism To work your universal. It takes a soul, To move a body : it takes a high-souled man, To move the masses . . even to a cleaner stye : It takes the ideal, to blow a hair's-breadth off The dust of the actual. — Ah, your Fouriers failed, Because not poets enough to understand That life develops from within.
Pagina 169 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.
Pagina 43 - A lover, not of a part of wisdom, but of the whole; who has a taste for every sort of knowledge and is curious to learn, and is never satisfied; who has magnificence of mind, and is the spectator of all time and all existence...
Pagina 80 - Nay, never falter: no great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty. No good is certain, but the steadfast mind, The -undivided will to seek the good: 'Tis that compels the elements, and wrings A human music from the indifferent air.
Pagina 59 - A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one ; And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all.
Pagina 111 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science.
Pagina 69 - Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God ; But only he who sees takes off his shoes...
Pagina 10 - On the roaring billows of Time, thou art not engulfed, but borne aloft into the azure of Eternity. Love not Pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved : wherein whoso walks and works, it is well with him.