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Page 183 - They thus beguile the way Untill the blustring storme is overblowne, When weening to returne whence they did stray They cannot finde that path which first was showne. But wander to and fro in waies unknowne. SPENSER'S Faerie
Page 70 - Is it not time to think of dinner! The mullets here are remarkably fine !" CHAPTER IX. Wollt ihr hoch auf ihren Flügeln schweben. Werft die Angst des Irdischen von euch ! Fliehet aus dem engen dumpfen Leben In des Ideales Reich ! DAS IDEAL
Page 231 - Orrida maestà nel fero aspetto Terrore accresce, e più supcrbo il rende ; Rosseggian gli occhi, e di veneno infetto Come infausta cometa, il guardo splende. . Gli involve il mento, e sull 'irsuto petto Ispida e folta la gran barbe scende
Page 53 - III. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, For all the day they view things unrespected ; But when I sleep, in dreams they look on
Page 160 - moat is an orb more populous than a kingdom is of men. Everywhere, then, in this immense Design, Science brings new life to light. Life is the one pervading principle, and even the thing that seems to die and putrify, but engenders new life, and changes to fresh forms of matter.
Page 59 - scanty and so stern as to deny to men the divine privilege of Free Will ; all of us can carve out our own way, and God can make our very contradictions harmonise with His solemn ends. You have before you an option. Honourable and generous love may even now work out your happiness,
Page 161 - subtle, that it is, as it were, but a film, a gossamer that clothes the spirit. Hence the Rosicrucian's lovely phantoms of sylph and gnome. Yet, in truth, these races and tribes differ more widely, each from each, than the Calmuck from the Greek—differ in attributes and powers. In the drop of water you see how the
Page 61 - the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. While we hear, every day, the small pretenders to science talk of the absurdities of Alchemy and the dream of the Philosopher's Stone, a more erudite knowledge is aware that by Alchemists the greatest discoveries in
Page 11 - My poor violin ! " said he, wiping his eyes—" they will never hiss thee again now ! " CHAPTER III. " Fra si contrarie tempre in ghiaccio e in foco, in riso e in pianto, e fra paura e spene L
Page 160 - Well, then, can you conceive that space which is the Infinite itself is alone a waste, is alone lifeless, is less useful to the one design of universal being than the dead carcass of a dog, than the peopled leaf, than the swarming globule