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Page 119 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Page lx - Death is the crown of life : Were death denied, poor man would live in vain : Were death denied, to live would not be life: Were death denied, e'en fools would wish to die. Death wounds to cure; we fall, we rise, we reign! Spring from our fetters, fasten in the skies, Where blooming Eden withers in our sight. Death gives us more than was in Eden lost!
Page 74 - And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
Page 131 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Page 95 - Over this stile is the way to Doubting Castle, which is kept by Giant Despair, who despiseth the King of the Celestial Country, and seeks to destroy his holy pilgrims.
Page liv - The committee on resolutions reported the following, which were adopted: / Resolved, That...
Page 112 - The organism of the State, the invention of the forms in which man may live in a civil community and enjoy municipal and personal rights — these trace their descent in. a direct line from Rome and were indigenous to the people that spoke Latin.
Page 119 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 112 - Rome through the two dead languages, Latin and Greek; for the evolution of the civilization in which we live and move and have our being, issued through Greece and Rome on its way to us.
Page 113 - We must, therefore, don the garb in which they thought and spoke, in order fully to realize in ourselves these embryonic stages of civilization. We know truly what we have lived through. We must live it in our dispositions or feelings, then realize the forms which it takes on in the fantasy, that is to say, in its art forms, and finally we must seize its principles abstractly by the understanding and concretely by the reason.