Time, Volume 9Edmund Hodgson Yates 1883 |
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Page 207 - Not on the vulgar mass Called " work," must sentence pass, Things done, that took the eye and had the price; O'er which, from level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice...
Page 208 - The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; Enough that He heard it once: we shall hear it by and by.
Page 207 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Page 507 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Page 589 - Profound truth ! that was not first which was spiritual, but that which was natural ; before Parsifal wins a spiritual triumph, he must be spiritually tried ; his inner life must be deepened and developed, else he can never read aright the message of the Grail.
Page 358 - Think that the sense of individual identity will be gradually merged in the general consciousness — that Man, for example, ceasing imperceptibly to feel himself Man, will at length attain that awfully triumphant epoch when he shall recognize his existence as that of Jehovah.
Page 230 - Through rampart, trench, and palisade, and bullets showering fast ; And on the open plain above they rose, and kept their course, With ready fire and grim resolve, that mocked at hostile force: Past Fontenoy, past Fontenoy, while thinner grow their ranks — They break, as broke the Zuyder Zee through Holland's ocean banks.
Page 230 - King Louis madly cried ; To death they rush, but rude their shock — not unavenged they died. On through the camp the column trod — King Louis turns his rein.
Page 559 - I do embrace it: for even that vulgar and Tavern Music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of Devotion, and a profound contemplation of the First Composer...
Page 360 - I have drank of a water That quenches all thirst: Of a water that flows, With a lullaby sound, From a spring but a very few Feet under ground From a cavern not very far Down under ground. And ah! let it never Be foolishly said That my room it is gloomy...