Tolstoy, Issue 7

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Duffield, 1918 - Literary Criticism - 393 pages
 

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Page 210 - With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow ; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd — " I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
Page 210 - There was the Door to which I found no Key ;There was the Veil through which I might not see: Some little talk awhile of ME and THEE There was — and then no more of THEE and ME.
Page 247 - For herein may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness, hardiness, love, friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue, and sin. Do after the good and leave the evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and renown.
Page 362 - ... it must even go into the world's history that the best poet led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
Page 210 - Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate, And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road ; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate...
Page 211 - Earth could not answer; nor the Seas that mourn In flowing Purple, of their Lord forlorn; Nor rolling Heaven, with all his Signs reveal'd And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn.
Page 212 - Then of the THEE IN ME who works behind The Veil, I lifted up my hands to find A Lamp amid the Darkness; and I heard, As from Without — "THE ME WITHIN THEE BLIND!
Page 297 - He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Page 362 - It must be conceded that these are half-views of halfmen. The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner ; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration.