On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in HistoryChapman and Hall, 1840 - 303 pages |
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... nature , still everywhere observably at work , though in less important things , That what a man feels intensely , he struggles to speak - out of him , to see represented before him in visual shape , and as if with a kind of life and ...
... nature , still everywhere observably at work , though in less important things , That what a man feels intensely , he struggles to speak - out of him , to see represented before him in visual shape , and as if with a kind of life and ...
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... Nature had as yet no name to him ; he had not yet united under a name the infinite variety of sights , sounds , shapes and motions , which we now collec- tively name Universe , Nature , or the like , —and so with a name dismiss it from ...
... Nature had as yet no name to him ; he had not yet united under a name the infinite variety of sights , sounds , shapes and motions , which we now collec- tively name Universe , Nature , or the like , —and so with a name dismiss it from ...
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... nature , ' that we recognise how every object has a divine beauty in it ; how every object still verily is a window through which we may look into Infinitude itself " ? He that can discern the loveliness of things , we call him Poet ...
... nature , ' that we recognise how every object has a divine beauty in it ; how every object still verily is a window through which we may look into Infinitude itself " ? He that can discern the loveliness of things , we call him Poet ...
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... Nature ; —they , without being mad , could worship Nature , and man more than anything else in Nature . Wor- ship , that is , as I said above , admire without limit : this , in the full use of their faculties , with all sincerity of ...
... Nature ; —they , without being mad , could worship Nature , and man more than anything else in Nature . Wor- ship , that is , as I said above , admire without limit : this , in the full use of their faculties , with all sincerity of ...
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... Nature is still divine , the revelation of the workings of God ; the Hero is still worshipable : this , under poor cramped incipient forms , is what all Pagan religions have struggled , as they could , to set forth . I think Scan ...
... Nature is still divine , the revelation of the workings of God ; the Hero is still worshipable : this , under poor cramped incipient forms , is what all Pagan religions have struggled , as they could , to set forth . I think Scan ...
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