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[55] “Hence is explained the origin of the name given to the Capitol: in
digging the foundation of the temple, they found a human head; and the
augurs
that Rome would become the head of all Italy.
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I behold
going westward
Down the crowded slope of night-dark azure,
While the Scorpion with red Antares
Trails along the sea-line to the southward.
And now the old knight is
and ta'en
To waste in the tavern man's cellar again.
Also, when he would taste the spicy wreaths
Of incense, breath'd aloft from sacred hills,
Instead of sweets, his ample palate took
Savour of poisonous brass and metal sick:
And so, when harbour'd in the sleepy west, 190
After the full completion of fair day,--
For rest divine upon exalted couch
And slumber in the arms of melody,
He pac'd away the
hours of ease
With stride colossal, on from hall to hall;
While far within each aisle and deep recess,
His winged minions in close clusters stood,
Amaz'd and full of fear; like anxious men
Who on wide plains gather in panting troops,
When earthquakes jar their battlements and towers.
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And men contending to ensepulchre
Pile upon pile the throng of their own dead:
And weary with woe and weeping
home;
And then the most would take to bed from grief.
"
A wee man of three picked up some lime
berries, and asked if they would grow to trees
if sown; but he said, "Nurse won't lend me
her
In other worlds can Mammon fail,
as he is here!
Moins pourtant que de penser à la
de lui où
vivrait le jeune ménage.
This new, modern translation conveys the verve and flow of his narrative while, for the first time, identifying within the text all the
and sources of Chateaubriand references.
Beside the shining scythe and
jug.
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When
its surface fan,
O object of my fond devotion!
Mais il a quelque chose
d'amusant, d'«obtenu», dit-elle en
le mot, comme un oeillet
vert, c'est-à-dire une chose qui m'étonne et ne me plaît pas infiniment,
une chose qu'il est étonnant qu'on ait pu faire, mais que je trouve
qu'on aurait fait aussi bien de ne pas pouvoir.
A wearied pilgrim, I have
here, II.
But it is doubtful whether " the idealism of our earthly life, the
of a high conception of what it may be made, is not capable of supplying a poetry, and, in the best sense of the word, a religion, equally fitted to exalt the feelings and still better calculated to ennoble the conduct, than any belief respecting the unseen powers.
"
When he had ended, his son and the Sibyl maiden he drew
Into the vast
— the crowd with its endless hum;
There on a hillock plants them, that hence they better may view All the procession advancing, and learn their looks as they come.
In verse 2, God has lost his creative power to the metaphysical universe o f created being, just as he lost his temporal
"in the beginning".
Even under the most favorable of circumstances--when the welfare-state satisfaction of a population has been largely successful and the containment and stimulation of a capital econ- omy has been running smoothly in a country for a long enough period of time--the system requires the integration of a growing portion of the pop- ulation into more risky greed activities and offensive acts of carelessness-- a circumstance only
captured by the expression "consumer soci- ety.
ye old
!
Miss Jeffries told the clergyman, that she
had been seduced by her uncle, while his wife was
living, and that had given her
procure
abortion two different times; though, for the truth of this we have no evidence but her own declaration.
]--The
of Chios.
' The dusk
was repeating them in a
whisper all around us, in a whisper
that seemed to swell menacingly like the first whisper of a rising wind.
There is the evidence of a kinetic "tradition in modernity," no matter how suspicious the continuation of this
may be.
I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone:
A wind from the pine-trees
on my bare head.
The
reaction came soon,
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These are known as follows: i) the miracle of the meditative concentration which is the display about the deity's retinue; ii) the miracle of initiation which is the initiation itself; iii} the miracle of the bless- ing is the sealing of the
by means of a mudra; and iv) the miracle of offering is the practice involv- ing offering, praising, and reciting mantras.
NOTES 97
There are within the psyche processes that are blatantly analogous to those that are
in the accumulation of ?
How could we ever have trusted in a guaranteed adequacy, in an equal degree of complexity between our mental capacities and the conditions of our individual and
survival?
The next tract we have to notice deals with the Paris
garden disaster of January 1583, which was too striking not to
evoke something more
than the inevitable broadside
ballad.
This is because in
action
the man himself is the efficient cause of his act.
