On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature

24. On what authority does the writer assume that the moral is alone the _Immortal_ principle--or the only part of the human nature bestowed by the breath of God? Are imaginatio...

31. Our knowledge of human labor, if intimate enough, will, I think, mass it for the most part into two kinds--mining and molding; the labor that seeks for things, and the labor...

74. The work I have to do in this paper ought, rightly, to have been thrown into the form of an appendix to the last chapter; for it is no link of the cestus of Aglaia we have t...

59. It is a wild March day,--the 20th; and very probably due course of English Spring will bring as wild a May-day by the time this writing meets anyone's eyes; but at all event...

46. As I try to summon this vision of Chaucer's into definiteness, and as it fades before me, and reappears, like the image of Piccarda in the moon, there mingles with it anothe...

103. I purpose in this chapter, as intimated in the last, to sketch briefly what I believe to be the real uses and powers of the three kinds of engraving, by black line; either...

92. In pursuing the question put at the close of the last paper, it must be observed that there are essentially two conditions under which we have to examine the difference betw...

85. In recommencing this series of papers, I may perhaps take permission briefly to remind the reader of the special purpose which my desultory way of writing, (of so vast a sub...

the former animating and informing the world of Sense or Matter, the latter finding her proper home in the world of abstract or immaterial existences --the former receiving the...