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...nd inspiring as it is rare. No longer associated with the ?divine right? of kings, it has survived the downfall of feudal and theocratic systems as a mystic personal emanation in place of a coercive weapon of statecraft....

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...ings, it has survived the downfall of feudal and theo cratic systems as a mystic personal emanation in place of a coercive weapon of statecraft. Free... ... rather than enhanced by his duality; a realist who strove to demolish the mysticism of Christianity, and became himself a mystic in the con templati... ...lism suggests to the world at large a vague sentimentality peculiar to the poets, a bloodless abstraction toyed with by philosophers, which must remai... ...ngs his heroes into touch with Nature, and endows them with all the innate mysticism of his own temperament, for to him Nature was “a guide to God.“ ... ...with enraptured allusions to his new found joy. Lassitude and indecision, mysticism and al truism, all were swept aside by the impetus of trium pha... ...nd freedom from the petty complexities of social life are necessary to the mystic whose constant endeavour is to simplify and to winnow, the transient...

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...stains of Hell. ............................................................................................................ 6 CANTO II. Sunrise.?The Poets on the shore.?Coming of a boat, guided by an angel, bearing souls to Purgatory.? Their landing.?Casella and his song.?Cato hurries the souls to the mountain. ................................. 10 CANTO III. Ante-Purgator...

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.................................................... 6 CANTO II. Sunrise.—The Poets on the shore.—Coming of a boat, guided by an angel, bearing souls to ... .... 23 CANTO VII. Virgil makes himself known to Sordello.—Sordello leads the Poets to the Valley of the Princes who have been negligent of salvation.—He... ...course of Statius and Virgil.—Entrance to the Ledge: the Glutton- ous.—The Mystic Tree.—Examples of Temperance. ......................................... ...nta concerning Gentucca, and of Forese concerning Corso de’ Donati.—Second Mystic Tree.—The Angel of the Pass. ..................................... 8... ....................................... 102 CANTO XXIX. The Earthly Paradise.—Mystic Procession or Triumph of the Church. .................................. ...hly Paradise.—Return of the Triumphal procession.—The Chariot bound to the Mystic Tree.—Sleep of Dante.—His waking to find the Triumph departed.—Trans... ...rgatory CANT CANT CANT CANT CANTO II. O II. O II. O II. O II. Sunrise.—The Poets on the shore.—Coming of a boat, guided by an angel, bearing souls to ... ...VII. VII. VII. Virgil makes himself known to Sordello.— Sordello leads the Poets to the Valley of the Princes who have been negligent of salvation.—He... ...shepherd who precedes the flock, and should lead it aright, is the Pope. A mystical interpretation of the injunc- tion upon the children of Israel (Le...

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... involuntarily we always read as superior be- ings. Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures, —in the sacerdot... ...ails of that stately apologue. Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus, said the poets. When the gods come among men, they are not known. Jesus was not; Soc... ...- mance, the issue is an exact allegory. Hence Plato said 22 Essays that “poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”... ...s you have lived. A man shall be the Temple of Fame. He shall walk, as the poets have described that goddess, in a robe painted all over with wonderfu... ...f men, of women, of animals, of gardens, of woods and of monsters, and the mystic pencil wherewith we then draw has no awkwardness or inexperi- ence, ... ...al exterior. The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics! Beyond this universality of the symbolic language, we are apprised... ...onents of his new thought. Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense f... ...nd horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. Mysticism consists in the mistake of an acci- dental and individual symbol ... ...y willingly translated into the equivalent terms which others use. And the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the ...

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...- quet, and you will see how many quarrels he put an end to. This is why the Poets are right in so highly commending this fac- ulty: Quickly and wise... ...CVIII CVIII We must approach this matter in a different way; it is great and mystical: it is no common thing; nor given to every man. Wisdom alone, it... ...Nay, but I would fain have stayed longer at the Festival. Ah, so would the mystics fain have the rites prolonged; so perchance would the crowd at t...

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...ch abused Concord River with the most famous in history. “Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream ... ...taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.” 11 HenryDavidThoreau The Mississippi, the Gan... ...bosom. It was such a season, in short, as that in which one of our Concord poets sailed on its stream, and sung its quiet glories. “There is an inwa... ...” There are other, savager, and more primeval aspects of na ture than our poets have sung. It is only white man’s poetry. Homer and Ossian even can n... ...ell to continue Indian. After sitting in my chamber many days, reading the poets, I have been out early on a foggy morning, and heard the cry of an ow... ...ods those Eastern sages sat contemplating Brahm, uttering in si lence the mystic “Om,” being absorbed into the essence of the Supreme Being, never go... ...him, but leaping on the shore, Stretching hand to hand, Received the mystic clod. But I hear it sinking from the deck, Go with the sea bri... ...e Genius; as there has been none wholly destitute of Genius. Poetry is the mysticism of mankind. The expressions of the poet cannot be analyzed; his s...

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...ny of that rich manhood which forms his poetry. All good men may be called poets in act, or in word; all good poets are so in both. But Goethe besides... ...tness, of which there is no other living instance; of which, among British poets espe- cially, Wordsworth alone offers any resemblance. And this in ou... ...arthly enthusi- asm of the Harper, the gay animal vivacity of Philina, the mystic, ethereal, almost spiritual nature of Mignon, are blended together i... ...talent to write many such pieces of rhetoric, setting forth the dignity of poets, and their innate independence on external circumstances, could be no... ... hearted, altogether Utilitarian character. We English again call Goethe a mystic; so difficult is it to please all parties! But the good, deep, noble... ... bear it warrior- like; still fewer put it off with triumph. Among our own poets, Byron was almost the only man we saw faithfully and manfully struggl... ...his mother’s, a pietist of the Moravian school. She initiated him into the mystical writings of those abstracted saints, and she engaged him in the st... ...satisfaction. The Neo-Platonism lay at the foundation; the hermetical, the mystical, the cabalistic, also contributed their share; and thus I built fo... ...g to do with feelings which might easily have led them into gloom, or with mysticism, which might easily have led them into the dark. This class, too,...

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...rning he had read Theocritus, whom he believed to be the greatest of Greek poets; he had lunched with a merry don and had tasted Zwieback biscuits; th... ...pire-builders hung on the wall, and he pointed to them. He quoted imperial poets. He showed how patriotism had broadened since the days of Shakespeare... ...y, that made her own image somewhat transient, so that when he left her no mystic influence remained, and only by an effort could he realize that God ... ...r ventured to obtrude his private wishes. Religion was to him a service, a mystic communion with good; not a means of getting what he wanted on the ea... .... He longed to be back riding over those windy fields, to be back in those mystic circles, beneath pure sky. Then they could have watched and helped a... ... his mother and his brother and all the outer world, troubling no one. The mystic, inherent in him, would have prevailed. So Ansell himself had told h... ... wandered. Still he heard the horse in the dark drinking, still he saw the mystic rose, and the tunnel dropping diamonds. He had driven away alone, be...

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........................................................ 30 JERUSALEM AND THE MYSTICAL SACRIFICE ........................................................... ... heard the gospel stories read in church, or learnt them from painters and poets, you came 13 Preface to Androcles and the Lion out with an impressio... ... “saved” without a sacrifice and a victim. In vain do we try to substitute mystical rites that cost nothing, such as circumcision, or, as a substitute... ...s expectation and crying aloud with prophecy of the Redeemer through their poets. To feel that atmosphere we have only to take up the Bible and read I... ... take place during the lifetime of persons then present. JERUSALEM AND THE MYSTICAL SACRIFICE In this new frame of mind he at last enters Jerusalem am... ...ny clue; and gives the impression of an educated, not to say sophisticated mystic, different both in character and schooling from the simple and downr...

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... lawgivers, philosophers, 24 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet prophets and poets for their guidance. But morality is not dependent on censorship for p... ... since the beginning of the world. T oleration must be imposed on him as a mystic and painful duty by his spiritual and political leaders, or he will ...

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...ngest daughter of Raymond Berenger. 11 A name for Italy, used only by the poets. 12 Bari on the Adriatic, Gaeta on the Mediterranean, and Catons at ... ...Bede, died 735; Richard, prior of the Monastery of St. Victor, at Paris, a mystic of the 12th century; all eminent theologians. 25 Sigier of Brabant,... ...milem suo tempore non habuit Ecelesia.” 39 Joachim, Abbot of Flora, whose mystic prophecies had great vogue. 50 Norton “The flaming courtesy of Brot... ...the heavens. 10 God was known in the primitive language by the sacred and mystical symbol I or J, the Hebrew letter Jod; afterwards by the term El: t...

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...Poe in Five V olumes the grace and symmetry of the outline are such as few poets ever attain. There is a smack of ambrosia about it. TO HELEN Helen, t... ...t of a geometrical diagram. For this reason Mr. Poe has no sympa- thy with Mysticism. The Mystic dwells in the mystery, is envel- oped with it; it col... ...he sun! Well and strenuously sung! The populace are hailing him ‘Prince of Poets,’ as well as ‘Glory of the East,’ ‘Delight of the Universe,’ and ‘Mos... ...-footed patriots seems to be for eating up the cameleopard. ‘The Prince of Poets,’ therefore, is upon his hinder legs, running for his life. His court... ...thou art Antiochus Epiphanes. Antiochus the Illustrious! — also ‘Prince of Poets,’ ‘Glory of the East,’ ‘Delight of the Universe,’ and ‘Most Remarkabl...

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...t the same as heaven. That is not imagination. No, it kills it. When their poets over here try to celebrate big- ness they are dead at once, and natur... ... general assertion of the won- der of the world. “My conviction,” says the mystic, “gains infinitely the moment another soul will be- lieve in it,” an... ...d—it is always that sloppy ‘somehow’ will be the outcome, and that in some mystical way the Mr. Basts of the future will benefit because the Mr. Brits... ...ible. The business man who assumes that this life is ev- erything, and the mystic who asserts that it is noth- ing, fail, on this side and on that, to... ...e great poet who shall voice her, or, better still for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk. At the church the scene...

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...inister is a fool, because he has acquired renown as a poet. All fools are poets; this the Prefect feels; and he is merely guilty of a non distributio... ...e is merely guilty of a non distributio medii in thence inferring that all poets are fools.” 15 V olume Two “But is this really the poet?” I asked. “... ... the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn—a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued. Shaking... ...e more forcibly impressed with it, as he gave it, because, in the under or mystic current of its meaning, I fancied that I perceived, and for the firs...

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...used, and they dragged after them in this direction not a few of the Latin poets of the Renaissance, who believed themselves bound to imitate them. Is... ...at breed miscon- duct and vice, or is he ever the apologist of these? Many poets and romance writers, under cover of a fastidious style, without one c... ...the strangest titles, and his ideas were no less whim- sical. His style is mystic, fastidious, and too often of a weari- some length and obscurity; hi... ...chance Show’d a drunk slave, teach children temperance; Thus did the later poets nobly bring The scene to height, making the fool the king. And, noble... ... well, the paragon of all philologues, and Ennius, the father of the Latin poets, as Horace calls him, although a certain sneaking jobernol alleged th... ...at nothing is by dreams concealed from us, and that only we thereby have a mystical signification and secret evidence of things to come, either for ou... ...he season of harvest feed on fruitages than at any other time. The same is mystically taught us by the ancient prophets and poets, who allege that all... ...g in the hand that holds it. This of old was accounted a prefiguration and mystical pointing out of the Pythian divineress, who used always, before th... ... that the rascal villain be so cunning as to asso- ciate unto himself some mystical flamen, who, according to the covenant made betwixt them two, shal...

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...us warrior, remonstrated some more about the courtesy that is due to great poets. But I suppose La Louve was the more ferocious of the two. Anyhow, th... ...ncer, and all that the old nun, who appeared to her to be infinitely wise, mystic and reverend, had done had been to shake her head sadly and to say: ...

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...ed women wearing rosaries with brass crosses, she was softly lulled by the mystic languor exhaled in the perfumes of the altar, the freshness of the h... ...perienced it,” she replied. “That is why,” he said, “I especially love the poets. I think verse more tender than prose, and that it moves far more eas... ...ncois, “Leave him alone! leave him alone! You perturb his morals with your mysticism.” But the good woman would no longer listen to him; he was the ca... ...is the opinion of all the Fathers. Finally,” he added, suddenly assuming a mystic tone of voice while he rolled a pinch of snuff between his fingers, ... ...d woman— a real mistress, in fine? By the diversity of her humour, in turn mystical or mirth- ful, talkative, taciturn, passionate, careless, she awak... ...st of a temporary lull in her pain, the lost volup- tuousness of her first mystical transports, with the visions of 277 Flaubert eternal beatitude th...

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...with those who had lived and thought and felt before him— philosophers and poets. What he now considered neces- sary and important were human institut... ...02 Resurrection swer to the bell. “No; whatever you may say, there is some mysticism in him; without mysticism there can be no poetry,” she said, with... ...g the footman’s movements as he was drawing the curtains. “Without poetry, mysticism is superstition; without mysticism, poetry is—prose,” she continu... ...d not satisfy her, and again she had to interrupt the conver- sation about mysticism, and correct in a martyred tone the unintelligent Philip, who was... ...s own hands. The great majority of the prisoners believed that there lay a mystic power in these gilt images, these vestments, candles, cups, crosses,...

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...h came before and after were told by other bards, who between them narrated the whole ?cycle? of the events of the war, and so were called the Cyclic Poets. Of their works none have survived; but the story of what befell between Hector?s funeral and the taking of Troy is told in detail, and well told, in a poem about half as long as the Iliad....

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...d the whole “cycle” of the events of the war, and so were called the Cyclic Poets. Of their works none have survived; but the story of what befell be... ... ring of his music, and he perhaps had before him the works of those Cyclic Poets whose stars had paled before the sun. We have practically no extern... ...more than an amplification or remodel ling of the works of these two Cyclic Poets.” This, however, must needs be pure conjecture, as the only remains... ... This, however, must needs be pure conjecture, as the only remains of these poets consist of fragments amounting to no more than a very few lines fro... ...stify us in the conclusion that, even if Quintus had the works of the Cyclic poets before him, which is far from certain, his poem was no mere remod ... ...mbered, indistinguishably blent. These no Immortal seeth; they are veiled In mystic cloud folds. Only Fate puts forth Her hands thereto, nor looks at...

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... GENIUS AND POETRY OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POPE E E E E Few poets during their lifetime have been at once so much admired and so much a... ...e class. “No T ory for our translator of Homer,” cried the zealous Whigs, “Poets should be poor, and Pope is independent,” growled Grub Street. The an... ...Shakspeare, Young, and Spenser, is one of the four most popular of English poets. In America, too, Lord Carlisle found, he tells us, the most cul- tiv... ...llins, Burns, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, and many other poets. His native faculty, indeed, seems rather fine than powerful—rather t... ...less wealth, the native inheritance of his own genius. The highest rank of poets descend on their sublime sub- jects, like Uriel, descending alongst h... ... Tibbald, 280 or Ozell. 281 The goddess then o’er his anointed head, With mystic words, the sacred opium shed. And, lo! her bird (a monster of a fowl... ...traordinary man. His ‘Serious Call’ made Dr Johnson reli- gious. He became mystical in his views. 345 ‘Morgan:’ a writer against religion. 346 ‘Mand...

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...must be permitted to call queer; but which Mr. Coleridge would have called mystical, Mr. Kant pantheistical, Mr. Carlyle twistical, and Mr. Emerson hy... ...ough and through with a Paixhan bomb, or knocked him in the head with the “Poets and Poetry of America,” he could hardly have been more discomfited th... ...Bon-Bon did begin at length to assume a character of strange intensity and mysticism, and appeared deeply tinctured with the diablerie of his favorite... ...blest—and, speaking of Fancy—one of the most singularly fanciful of modern poets, was Thomas Hood. His “Fair Ines” had always for me an inexpressible ... ... cite only a very brief specimen. I call him, and think him the noblest of poets, not because the impressions he produces are at all times the most pr... ...ed that at least one-third of the affection with which we regard the elder poets of Great Britain should be-attributed to what is, in itself, a thing ... ...e. 1845. THE SLEEPER At midnight in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. An opiate vapour, dewy, dim, Exhales from out her golden rim, ... ...ry fops glance from the binding to the bottom of the title-page, where the mystic characters which spell London, Paris, or Genoa, are precisely so man... ...d shouting with a thousand rills. I spoke to her of power and pride, But mystically—in such guise That she might deem it nought beside The moment’...

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...ame year in which I began Latin, I made my first commencement in the Greek poets with the Iliad. After I had made some progress in this, my father put... ...r their influence. There have certainly been, even in our own age, greater poets than Wordsworth; but poetry of deeper and loftier feeling could not h... ...than by the measure of what he had done for me. Compared with the greatest poets, he may be said to be the poet of unpoetical natures, possessed of qu... ...cultivation. This cultivation Wordsworth is much more fitted to give, than poets who are intrinsically far more poets than he. It so fell out that the... ...litude, and, saying to himself (as he after wards told me) “Here is a new Mystic,” inquired on coming to London that autumn respecting their authorsh... ...l differences in our philosophy. He soon found out that I was not “another mystic,” and when for the sake of my own integrity I wrote to him a distinc... ...hief difference between us was that I “was as yet consciously nothing of a mystic.” I do not know at what period he gave up the expectation that I was... ...led from minds otherwise capable of receiving it by the transcendental and mystical phraseology in which they were accustomed to shut it up, and from ...

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... matter and lame meter; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own vexa- tion, hindranc... ...ve expressed them. Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme both in longer and shorter works,... ... fixt in thir Orb that flies, And yee five other wandring Fires that move In mystic Dance not without Song, resound His praise, who out of Darkness ca... ...y, as other solem dayes, they spent In song and dance about the sacred Hill, Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare Of Planets and of fixt in al... ...f reviv’d ADONIS, or renownd ALCINOUS, host of old LAERTES Son, Or that, not Mystic, where the Sapient King Held dalliance with his faire EGYPTIAN Spo...

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...ee. And, lest new fears disturb thy happy state, Know, I have search’d the mystic rolls of Fate: Thy son (nor is th’ appointed season far) In Italy sh... ... upbraid The madness of the visionary maid, And with loud curses leave the mystic shade. “‘Think it not loss of time a while to stay, Tho’ thy compani... ...rule the regions of the night, Y e gliding ghosts, permit me to relate The mystic wonders of your silent state! Obscure they went thro’ dreary shades,... ... were prodigal of blood: Priests of unblemish’d lives here make abode, And poets worthy their inspiring god; And searching wits, of more mechanic part...

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...x, and gx and drxwn yxur sxrrxws in a bxwl!’ The uproar occasioned by this mystical and cabalistical ar- ticle, is not to be conceived. The first defi... ...airest and best beloved Una, “born again.” These were the words upon whose mystical meaning I had so long pondered, rejecting the explanations of the ... ...er in the evolving of the vague idea of the philo- sophic, and find in the mystic parable that tells of the tree of knowledge, and of its forbidden fr... ... not meet for man in the in- fant condition of his soul. And these men—the poets—living and perishing amid the scorn of the “utilitarians” —of rough p... ... which could have been properly applied only to the scorned—these men, the poets, pondered piningly, yet not unwisely, upon the ancient days when our ...

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...ceremony , the empire became divided against itself.[“Musings of a Chinese Mystic.” Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu. With an Introduction... ...n of its utility would be invaluable. Whoever will observe how many of our poets have been men of private means will realize how much poetic capacity ...

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...of, something has to be found to repre- sent it. According to Froebel, the mystic symbolic value of certain objects and acts (largely mathematical) st... ...having 76 Democracy & Education to be content with vague and more or less mystic gener- alities about ultimate ideals and speculative spiritual sym- ... ...n- talities of an expanding and controlled experience, and the artists and poets who have celebrated his struggles, triumphs, and defeats in such lang...

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..., of grand and mysterious poems; and the ingenious stories invented by the poets, which my mother told me in the evening, had none of the flavor, none... ...ouse, and they dis- cussed me there. I became a sort of Western prophet, a mystic charmer who was ready to nihilize the Latin races, the Saint Paul of...