 Thus all lower natures find their highest good in semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better. All things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving. And shall man alone stoop? Shall his pursuits and desires, the reflections of his...  Silver-shell; or, The adventures of an oyster - Seite 102von Charles Williams - 1857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 742 Seiten
...lower natures find their highest good in semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better. All things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving....image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it, in neighbourhood with the slim... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 364 Seiten
...lower natures find their highest good in semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better. All things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving....image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it, in neighbourhood with the slim... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 410 Seiten
...lower natures find their highest good in semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better. AH things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving....image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it, in neighbourhood with the slim... | |
 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 Seiten
...they appear the types of a grovelling nature; thus Coleridge regarded them. " Shall man," says he, " alone stoop ? shall his pursuits and desires, the...image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it, in neighbourhood with the slim... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 386 Seiten
...lower natures find their highest good in semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better. All things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving....image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it, in neighbourhood with the slim... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 406 Seiten
...lower natures find their highest good in semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better. All things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving....image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it, in neighbourhood with the slim... | |
 | University magazine - 1848 - 824 Seiten
...low natures find their highest good ia semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better. All things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving....image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, ami seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it, in neighbourhood with the slim... | |
 | Herman Hooker - 1850 - 296 Seiten
...the laws of our moral nature, and would, moreover, place religion out of the sphere of all analogy. " All things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving....image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it?"1 Strange that any should think... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1851 - 204 Seiten
...is higher and better. "All things," says Colridge, "sirive to ascend and ascend in their strivings. And shall man alone stoop? Shall his pursuits and...inward life, be like the reflected image of a tree in the edge of a pool, that grows down and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable elements beneath? How... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 528 Seiten
...lower natures find their highest good in semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better. All things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving....image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it, in neighborhood with the slim... | |
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