Tao Te Ching - Part I
Chapter 1 The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal name The nameless is the...
Oration on the Dignity of Man - Part VIII
For these reasons, I have not been content to repeat well-worn doctrines, but have proposed for disputation many points of the early...
A Defence of Poetry - Part VIII
The poetry of Dante may be considered as the bridge thrown over the stream of time, which unites the modern and ancient world. The...
Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part VIII
Letter XII THIS twofold labour or task, which consists in making the necessary pass into reality in usand in making out of us reality...
Oration on the Dignity of Man - Part VII
In our own day, many scholars, imitating Gorgias of Leontini, have been accustomed to dispute, not nine hundred questions merely, but the...
A Defence of Poetry - Part VII
It is probable that the poetry of Moses, Job, David, Solomon, and Isaiah had produced a great effect upon the mind of Jesus and his...
A Poison Tree
"A Poison Tree" William Blake I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not,...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part VII
Letter XI If abstraction rises to as great an elevation as possible, it arrives at two primary ideas, before which it is obliged to stop...
A Defence of Poetry - Part VI
Civil war, the spoils of Asia, and the fatal predominance first of the Macedonian, and then of the Roman arms, were so many symbols of...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part VI
Letter X CONVINCED by my preceding letters, you agree with me on this point, that man can depart from his destination by two opposite...
