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Էջ 150 - Light among the vanish'd ages; star that gildest yet this phantom shore ; Golden branch amid the shadows, kings and realms that pass to rise no more ; Now thy Forum roars no longer, fallen every purple Caesar's dome — Tho...
Էջ 203 - BEGIN the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. But I who have seen the nature of the good that it is beautiful, and of the bad that it is ugly, and the nature of him who does wrong, that it is akin to me, not only of the same blood...
Էջ 203 - Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early nor too late, which is in due time for thee. Everything is fruit to me which thy seasons bring, O Nature: from thee are all things, in thee are all things, to thee all things return.
Էջ 215 - For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away.
Էջ 132 - ... plantas. illam omnis tectis agrisque effusa iuventus turbaque miratur matrum et prospectat euntem, attonitis inhians animis, ut regius ostro velet honos leves umeros, ut fibula crinem auro internectat, Lyciam ut gerat ipsa pharetram et pastoralem praefixa cuspide myrtum.
Էջ 192 - Cardinal Francis Barberini the elder, who dedicated the translation to his soul, in order to make it redder than his purple at the sight of the virtues of this Gentile.
Էջ 103 - Marc. xxi. 12 (Constantius). sought communion with the Unseen, from systematic experiment to intuitive ecstasy. They had completed the cycle of their scripture from its Theogony to its Apocalypse; it was time that a stronger wave of revelation should roll over the world, and that what was best and truest in the old religion should be absorbed into and identified with the new.
Էջ 97 - Thou hast begotten us, thou too must hear ! Each life thy life her Fount, her Ocean knows, Fed while it fosters, filling as it flows ; Wrapt in thy light the star-set cycles roll, And worlds within thee stir into a soul ; But stars and souls shall keep their watch and way, Nor change the going of thy lonely day. Some sons of thine, our Father, King of kings, Rest in the sheen and shelter of thy wings, — Some to strange hearts the unspoken message bear, Sped on thy strength through the haunts and...
Էջ 117 - F^nelon could never read without admiring tears. This line Filippo Strozzi scrawled on his prison- wall, when he slew himself to avoid worse ill6.