Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas, Volume 1Macmillan, 1885 - 246 pages |
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Page 330 - I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
Page 187 - Mecoenas is yclad in claye, And great Augustus long ygoe is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in leade, That matter made for Poets on to play: For ever who in derring doe were dreade, The loftie verse of hem was loved aye.
Page 147 - Conceded that what is secure in our existence is but the sharp apex of the present moment between two hypothetical eternities, and all that is real in our experience but a series of fleeting impressions...
Page 200 - To him, indeed, whose wit hath been whetted by true doctrine, that well-worn sentence of Homer sufficeth, to guard him against regret and fear. — Like the race of leaves The race of man is: — The wind in autumn strows The earth with old leaves: then the spring the woods with new endows. Leaves! little leaves — thy children, thy flatterers, thine enemies! Leaves in the wind, those who would devote thee to darkness, who scorn or miscall thee here, even as they also whose great fame shall outlast...
Page 341 - The waters compassed me about, even to the soul : the depth closed me round about. The weeds were wrapped about my head: I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
Page 239 - Surely evil was a real thing, and the wise man wanting in the sense of it, where, not to have been, by instinctive election, on the right side, was to have failed in life.
Page 96 - ... the satisfaction of which another might have relied on the acquisition and display of brilliant military qualities. In him, a fine instinctive sentiment of the exact value and power of words was connate with the eager longing for sway over his fellows. He saw himself already a gallant and effective leader, innovating or conservative as occasion might require, in the rehabilitation of the mother-tongue, then fallen so tarnished and languid; yet the sole object, as he mused within himself, of the...
Page 146 - Pitched to a really high and serious key, the precept — Be perfect in regard to what is here and now: the precept of "culture," as it is called, or of a complete education — might at least save him from the vulgarity and heaviness of a generation, certainly of no general fineness of temper, though with a material well-being abundant enough.
Page 253 - That age and our own have much in common — many difficulties and hopes. Let the reader pardon me if here and there I seem to be passing from Marius to his modern representatives — from Rome, to Paris or London.
Page 38 - To keep the eye clear by a sort of exquisite personal alacrity and cleanliness, extending even to his dwelling-place ; to discriminate ever more and more fastidiously, select form and colour in things from what was less select ; to meditate much on beautiful visible objects, on objects, more especially, connected with the period of youth — on children at play in the morning, the trees...