The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, 4. köideF.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 pages |
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Page 1235
... existence allowed to the weak only at the price of their submission to enduring injustice , then the question God must answer to justify his own existence to such a mind as that of Dante was the meaning of all this ! And the answer ...
... existence allowed to the weak only at the price of their submission to enduring injustice , then the question God must answer to justify his own existence to such a mind as that of Dante was the meaning of all this ! And the answer ...
Page 1236
... existence . He lived sick , passionate , and sad , suffering the evil not only of his own nature , but of the whole evil world around him . Yet seeing things " bare to the buff , " having no illusions and waiting in the world as one ...
... existence . He lived sick , passionate , and sad , suffering the evil not only of his own nature , but of the whole evil world around him . Yet seeing things " bare to the buff , " having no illusions and waiting in the world as one ...
Page 1272
... existence . Were it permitted me to extend your vision to the fates of individual existences , I could show you the same spirit , which in the form of Socrates devel- oped the foundations of moral and social virtue , in the Czar Peter ...
... existence . Were it permitted me to extend your vision to the fates of individual existences , I could show you the same spirit , which in the form of Socrates devel- oped the foundations of moral and social virtue , in the Czar Peter ...
Page 1277
... existence derives its enjoyment from the diversity of cir- cumstances to which they are exposed ; passing as it were through the infinity of space they are continually gratified by the sight of new systems and worlds , and you can ...
... existence derives its enjoyment from the diversity of cir- cumstances to which they are exposed ; passing as it were through the infinity of space they are continually gratified by the sight of new systems and worlds , and you can ...
Page 1278
... existence and still belongs to the earth or an inferior system , till its errors are corrected by painful discipline . When , on the contrary , the love of intellectual power has been exercised on its noblest objects , in discovering ...
... existence and still belongs to the earth or an inferior system , till its errors are corrected by painful discipline . When , on the contrary , the love of intellectual power has been exercised on its noblest objects , in discovering ...
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Page 1615 - Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Page 1490 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 1398 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 1305 - Farewell to hope and to tranquil dreams, and to the blessed consolations of sleep. For more than three years and a half I am summoned away from these.
Page 1376 - And the star was shining. He grew to be a man whose hair was turning gray, and he was sitting in his chair by the fireside, heavy with grief, and with his face bedewed with tears when the star opened once again. Said his sister's angel to the leader, "Is my brother come?" And he said, "Nay, but his maiden daughter.
Page 1450 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.
Page 1490 - What Virgil wrote in the vigour of his age, in plenty and at ease, I have undertaken to translate in my declining years; struggling with wants, oppressed with sickness, curbed in my genius, liable to be misconstrued in all I write...
Page 1615 - ... which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught...
Page 1599 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Page 1616 - The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle. He has a fine Geneva watch, but he fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun.