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... things that he undertook must be the despair of lesser abilities : ' In things difficult there is danger from ignorance , and in things easy from confidence ; the mind , afraid of greatness , and disdainful of littleness , hastily with ...
... things that he undertook must be the despair of lesser abilities : ' In things difficult there is danger from ignorance , and in things easy from confidence ; the mind , afraid of greatness , and disdainful of littleness , hastily with ...
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... things . It was too closely interwoven with earlier belief to survive the antagonism of the new faith , which first dreaded the ancient world , and then triumphed over it . Within the last five hundred years classical mythology has been ...
... things . It was too closely interwoven with earlier belief to survive the antagonism of the new faith , which first dreaded the ancient world , and then triumphed over it . Within the last five hundred years classical mythology has been ...
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... thing . It rises grandly in heroic proportion , and is crowned with the glory of its capital . It has the proud character of Athene or of the far - darting Apollo , and in its definite and circum- scribed perfection it reflects the ...
... thing . It rises grandly in heroic proportion , and is crowned with the glory of its capital . It has the proud character of Athene or of the far - darting Apollo , and in its definite and circum- scribed perfection it reflects the ...
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... things are not brought home to men in terms of human life . It is for this reason that a painting or a description of a land- scape which reproduces simply the landscape itself is imperfect . The best art therefore personifies the ...
... things are not brought home to men in terms of human life . It is for this reason that a painting or a description of a land- scape which reproduces simply the landscape itself is imperfect . The best art therefore personifies the ...
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... things with greatest ) , in Irassa strove With Jove's Alcides , and , oft foiled , still rose , Receiving from his mother Earth new strength , Fresh from his fall , and fiercer grapple joined , Throttled at length in the air expired and ...
... things with greatest ) , in Irassa strove With Jove's Alcides , and , oft foiled , still rose , Receiving from his mother Earth new strength , Fresh from his fall , and fiercer grapple joined , Throttled at length in the air expired and ...
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Page lii - HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings ; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Page 57 - Muse ! that on the secret top Of Oreb or of Sinai didst inspire That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos.
Page lxi - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page lxviii - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page xv - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Page xxv - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page lxxxii - For neither were ye playing on the steep Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me! I fondly dream "Had ye been there," — for what could that have done?
Page lvi - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out 140 With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Page lix - Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys!
Page xxxix - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream : And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.