The New World: College Readings in EnglishHarold Lawton Bruce, Guy Montgomery Macmillan, 1927 - 575 Seiten |
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Seite 412 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Seite 445 - Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things ; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts ; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach...
Seite 196 - Before the end, one began to pray to it; inherited instinct taught the natural expression of man before silent and infinite force. Among the thousand symbols of ultimate energy, the dynamo was not so human as some, but it was the most expressiveYet the dynamo, next to the steam-engine, was the most familiar of exhibits.
Seite 394 - The whole atmosphere of tense interest was exactly that of the Greek drama : we were the chorus commenting on the decree of destiny as disclosed in the development of a supreme incident. There was dramatic quality in the very staging: — the traditional ceremonial, and in the background the picture of Newton to remind us that the greatest of scientific generalisations was now, after more than two centuries, to receive its first modification.
Seite 224 - Above all this scenery of perfect human life, rose dome and bell-tower, burning with white alabaster and gold: beyond dome and bell-tower the slopes of mighty hills, hoary with olive; far in the north, above a purple sea of peaks of solemn Apennine, the clear, sharp-cloven Carrara mountains sent up their steadfast flames of marble summit into amber sky; the great sea itself, scorching with expanse of light, stretching from their feet to the Gorgonian isles; and over all these, ever present, near...
Seite 397 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Seite 197 - ... that he was not responsible for the new rays, that were little short of parricidal in their wicked spirit towards science. His own rays, with which he had doubled the solar spectrum, were altogether harmless and beneficent; but Radium denied its God — or, what was to Langley the same thing, denied the truths of his Science. The force was wholly new.
Seite 387 - Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Seite 547 - I have perceived much beauty In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight; Heard music in the silentness of duty; Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate.
Seite 109 - Nevermore-to-roam-horn, loam-horn, home-horn, (Some of them from Kansas, some of them from Kansas). Far away the Rachel-Jane, Not defeated by the horns, Sings amid a hedge of thorns; "Love and life, Eternal youth — Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet!