Voices of Nature to Her Foster-child, the Soul of Man: A Series of Analogies Between the Natural and the Spiritual WorldC. Scribner, 1852 - 430 էջ |
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... perfect harmony with all the delightful emotions produced by scenes of loveliness , and impels the soul to the exercise of prayer and praise . The vague delight of the mere poetic sensi- bility is quite another thing . There , an ...
... perfect harmony with all the delightful emotions produced by scenes of loveliness , and impels the soul to the exercise of prayer and praise . The vague delight of the mere poetic sensi- bility is quite another thing . There , an ...
Էջ 63
... perfect means , both of moral and mental discipline . Thus God hath set the world in our hearts ; in our own moral frame and destiny we have the purposes for which the world was framed , and the meanings which it was intended to sustain ...
... perfect means , both of moral and mental discipline . Thus God hath set the world in our hearts ; in our own moral frame and destiny we have the purposes for which the world was framed , and the meanings which it was intended to sustain ...
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... perfect darkness . Sensibility dies with it , and stupor and blindness united form the characteristic of the soul . The man becomes so hardened , that it is difficult to believe that such a mass of insensibility is really destined to ...
... perfect darkness . Sensibility dies with it , and stupor and blindness united form the characteristic of the soul . The man becomes so hardened , that it is difficult to believe that such a mass of insensibility is really destined to ...
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... perfect unity , to the same close . Now it is impossible to say how much of the " mysticism ” of nature , the mysterious power of nature over the sensitive soul , may be owing to the working of these invisible laws . We have to live ...
... perfect unity , to the same close . Now it is impossible to say how much of the " mysticism ” of nature , the mysterious power of nature over the sensitive soul , may be owing to the working of these invisible laws . We have to live ...
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... perfect spiritualization of all the laws of nature into laws of intuition and intellect . The phenomena ( the material ) must wholly disappear , and the laws alone ( the formal ) must remain . Hence it comes that in nature itself , the ...
... perfect spiritualization of all the laws of nature into laws of intuition and intellect . The phenomena ( the material ) must wholly disappear , and the laws alone ( the formal ) must remain . Hence it comes that in nature itself , the ...
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Voices of Nature to Her Foster-child, the Soul of Man: A Series of Analogies ... George Barrell Cheever Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1852 |
Voices of Nature to Her Foster-child the Soul of Man: A Series of Analogues ... George Barrell Cheever Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1864 |
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Էջ 23 - To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime ; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened...
Էջ 24 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, ' And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create *, And what perceive...
Էջ 315 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is : For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Էջ 69 - And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower ; and so it is. 55 And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.
Էջ 12 - Wordsworth on the other hand, |was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Էջ 225 - For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God ; but that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
Էջ 24 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Էջ 271 - And, because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Էջ 157 - Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back (at that short space) Could see a glimpse of his bright face...
Էջ 390 - Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters Or a way for the lightning of thunder; To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man; To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; And to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?