University of California Chronicle, Volume 22

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University of California Press, 1920 - United States

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Page 311 - Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought, Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic oracle; Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old...
Page 266 - To solder the disjoined, and dower Thy native language with a word Of power : We bless thee ! Whether far or near Thy dwelling, whether dark or fair Thy kingly brow, is neither here Nor there. But in men's hearts shall be thy throne, While the great pulse of England beats : Thou coiner of a word unknown To Keats! And nevermore must printer do As men did long ago ; but run "For" into "ever,
Page 355 - Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact.
Page 257 - ID multa renascentur quae iam cecidere, cadentque quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus, quern penes arbitrium est et ius et norma loquendi.
Page 209 - Every idle, or lewd, or dissolute person, or associate of known thieves; or, 6. Every person who wanders about the streets at late or unusual hours of the night, without any visible or lawful business: or, 7.
Page 208 - Every person (except a California Indian) without visible means of living who has the physical ability to work, and who does not seek employment, nor labor when employment is offered him; or, 2.
Page 355 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; •• Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear?
Page 267 - For, let the words of a country be in part unhandsome and offensive in themselves, in part debased by wear and wrongly uttered, and what do they declare, but, by no light indication, that the inhabitants of that country are an indolent, idly yawning race, with minds already long prepared for any amount of servility?
Page 267 - But next to him the man who strives to establish in maxims and rules the method and habit of speaking and writing received from a good age of the nation, and, as it were, to fortify the same round with a kind of wall, the daring to overleap which let a law only short of that of Romulus be used to prevent The one, as I believe, supplies noble courage and intrepid counsels against an enemy invading the territory.
Page 208 - Every beggar who solicits alms as a business; or, 3. Every person who roams about from place to place without any lawful business; or, 4. Every person known to be a pickpocket, thief, burglar or confidence operator, either by his own confession, or by his having been convicted of either...

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