Lectures on the Harvard ClassicsWilliam Allan Neilson Sixty introductory lectures, five each on history, poetry, natural science, philosophy, biography, prose fiction, criticism and the essay, education, political science, drama, voyages and travel, and religion. |
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... theory , every suggestion burgeoned , flowered , and bore fruit . Some of them , it is true , recognized limitations to the versatility characteristic of the spirit of the age . Pier Paolo Vergerio , after reviewing the principal ...
... theory , every suggestion burgeoned , flowered , and bore fruit . Some of them , it is true , recognized limitations to the versatility characteristic of the spirit of the age . Pier Paolo Vergerio , after reviewing the principal ...
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... theory of love which was to govern the " sweet new style . " DANTE'S CONCEPTION OF LOVE According to this doctrine , love is an attribute of the " gentle " heart alone . There it slumbers until aroused to activity by a worthy object ...
... theory of love which was to govern the " sweet new style . " DANTE'S CONCEPTION OF LOVE According to this doctrine , love is an attribute of the " gentle " heart alone . There it slumbers until aroused to activity by a worthy object ...
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... theory . Similarly , heat , electricity , and magnetism were of no great importance , unless the magistral work on magnetism of William Gilbert , physician to Queen Elizabeth , published in 1600 , be reckoned . Two other departments of ...
... theory . Similarly , heat , electricity , and magnetism were of no great importance , unless the magistral work on magnetism of William Gilbert , physician to Queen Elizabeth , published in 1600 , be reckoned . Two other departments of ...
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... theory had to be developed , had to be interwoven with the kinetic theory of gases which sees the molecules in endless motion , had to be extended with the help of geometry , before this was possible . Still , a new tendency had formed ...
... theory had to be developed , had to be interwoven with the kinetic theory of gases which sees the molecules in endless motion , had to be extended with the help of geometry , before this was possible . Still , a new tendency had formed ...
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... theories , and in the Middle Ages became dogmas which were held most tenaciously and blindly . As astronomical knowledge slowly increased , it became necessary to make the theory more and more complex in order to fit the facts , and ...
... theories , and in the Middle Ages became dogmas which were held most tenaciously and blindly . As astronomical knowledge slowly increased , it became necessary to make the theory more and more complex in order to fit the facts , and ...
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Page 67 - BRIGHT STAR ! would I were steadfast as thou art :— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Page 316 - Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim afternoon light through the aisles of St. Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then, in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music, — subtle, sweet, mournful?
Page 60 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.— That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures.
Page 60 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity ; Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts : a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man...
Page 59 - Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Page 312 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 129 - How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 163 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet— Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. God is law, say the wise; O Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice. Law is God, say some: no God at all, says the fool; For all we have power to see is a straight staff bent in a pool; And the ear of man cannot hear, and the eye of man cannot see; But if we could see and hear, this Vision— were it not He?
Page 58 - Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read.' So he vanish'd from my sight; And I pluck'da hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stain'd the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.
Page 15 - A victorious, line of march had been prolonged above a thousand miles from the rock of Gibraltar to the banks of the Loire ; the repetition of an equal space would have carried the Saracens to the confines of Poland and the Highlands of Scotland: The Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian ileet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames.