Principle in Art, Etc

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G. Bell, 1898 - 265 Seiten

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Seite 42 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Seite 48 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love...
Seite 150 - And in the sweetest passage of a song. Oh, just beyond the fairest thoughts that throng This breast, the thought of thee waits, hidden yet bright ; But it must never, never come in sight ; I must stop short of thee the whole day long.
Seite 84 - Yet here, I swear — and as I break my oaths, may Infinity, Eternity blast me — here I swear, that never will I forgive intolerance ! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge ; every moment shall be devoted to my object, which I can spare...
Seite 11 - I was with Him, forming all things, and was delighted every day, playing before Him at all times, playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men.
Seite 150 - With the first dream that comes with the first sleep I run, I run, I am gathered to thy heart.
Seite 87 - There are some hopes of this dear little girl, she would be a divine little scion of infidelity if I could get hold of her,' was not to have been cured by Paley's Natural Theology administered through Mr.
Seite 148 - I am about to direct attention to one of the very rarest products of nature and grace, — a woman of genius, one who I am bound to confess has falsified the assertion I made some time ago that no female writer of our time has attained to true "distinction.
Seite 159 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done ; and in the after- vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And has the nature of infinity.
Seite 12 - ALL harmony is founded on a relation to rest — on relative rest. Take a metallic plate, and strew sand on it ; sound a harmonic chord over the sand, and the grains will whirl about in circles, and other geometrical figures, all, as it were, depending on some point of sand relatively at rest. Sound a discord, and every grain will whisk about without any order at all, in no figures, and with no points of rest.

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