The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 էջ |
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... Pythagoras and Plato and Leibnitz were considerably more than mere mathematicians . Let me however compare with them an equal number of poets and painters . Pindar 80 Sophocles 90 Euripides 75 89 71 • 90 B 2 Preliminary . 3.
... Pythagoras and Plato and Leibnitz were considerably more than mere mathematicians . Let me however compare with them an equal number of poets and painters . Pindar 80 Sophocles 90 Euripides 75 89 71 • 90 B 2 Preliminary . 3.
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... poet or sage who leaves this world ( to write vaguely ) after a great career will renew his youth , and reappear on this or some other scene , with a fairer form than ever , and with greater power to ascend towards the infinite summit ...
... poet or sage who leaves this world ( to write vaguely ) after a great career will renew his youth , and reappear on this or some other scene , with a fairer form than ever , and with greater power to ascend towards the infinite summit ...
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... Rhaicos and the Hama- dryad reveal to us that sensitiveness to the subtle life of the world which existed in simpler times among a poetic people . There are no oak nymphs , I grant you ; but I 2 The Secret of Long Life .
... Rhaicos and the Hama- dryad reveal to us that sensitiveness to the subtle life of the world which existed in simpler times among a poetic people . There are no oak nymphs , I grant you ; but I 2 The Secret of Long Life .
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... poet may sing in winter now and then , at the latter end of a sea - coal fire and a flask of wine . For coal is fossil sunshine , drunken in by forests that perished myriads of years ago ; and wine is liquid sunshine , caught in grape ...
... poet may sing in winter now and then , at the latter end of a sea - coal fire and a flask of wine . For coal is fossil sunshine , drunken in by forests that perished myriads of years ago ; and wine is liquid sunshine , caught in grape ...
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... - men and soldiers , wild humourists and revellers , poetic dreamers , women of wit , of adventure , of romance , heroes and cowards , philosophers and clowns , felt within him the sadness of sweet 14 The Secret of Long Life .
... - men and soldiers , wild humourists and revellers , poetic dreamers , women of wit , of adventure , of romance , heroes and cowards , philosophers and clowns , felt within him the sadness of sweet 14 The Secret of Long Life .
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Էջ 32 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Էջ 94 - And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day — Ah ! do not we, wanderer ! await it too ? Yes, we await it! — but it still delays, And then we suffer! and amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne; And all his store of sad experience he Lays bare of wretched days...