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...d permission of Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. N.K. Sandars, The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Version, Penguin Classics, revised edition, H... ...local buildings (synagogues) involving neither sacrifices nor priests. The records portray Je- sus as participating both in Temple worship and in syna... ...al material relating to first century Palestine is so scanty that the only records on which to base a conclusion are the texts in the New Testament. C... ...h synagogues, one all- important addition was made. By the time historical records come upon the scene, Christian worship centered on a special ritual... ...note that the same journey was written up in the ancient Sumerian poem The Epic of Gil- gamesh, written before 2000 BC, in which it is a journey under... ...y, which, however, he lost on MYSTICISM 161 his return journey.] 122 This epic served as a religious text for the Sumerians and Babylonians for some ... ...e spiritual, more individually creative in the arts and crafts. We are all artists, in a dream-centered life, rather than relegating art only to speci...

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...tline of his his- tory, as is oftentimes to be gathered from the penurious records of a grave-stone. That he lived, and that he died, and that he was ... ...f Milton’s mind, in the majestic regularity and planetary solemnity of its epic movements, something which he could understand and appreciate. As to t... ...his name and personal responsibility, (M Simond, now an American citizen,) records the following abominable scene as one of no uncommon occurrence. A ... ...Mr. Bridges at Falham, which, speak- ing of the original Homer, distinctly records the knowledge which he had of his own “imperfectness in the languag... ... impassioned movements of the tragic, and to the majestic movements of the epic muse. We cannot alter the relations of things out of favor to an indiv... ...Lamb had the dra- matic intellect and taste, perhaps in perfection; of the Epic, he had none at all. Here, as happens sometimes to men of genius prete... ...ome knowl- edge. The Goethes were able to forward his views amongst German artists; whilst, on the other hand, they were pleased to have thus an oppor...

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...led off to Troyes in Champagne; and nothing left but a few mute Keepers of records; the Demosthenic thunder become extinct, the martyrs of liberty cle... ...ont, to have these late obnoxious Arretes and protests ‘expunged’ from the Records, are received in the most marked manner. Monsieur, who is thought t... ...hapes enough of Immortals fighting in its battle-ranks, and never want for Epical Machinery? Be this as it may, the Brigands are clearly got to Paris,... ...n Astolpho could have ridden! In the Commons Deputies there are Merchants, Artists, Men of Letters; three hundred and seventy-four Lawyers; (Bouille, ... ...irculate harmoniously along the benches; nor, accord- ing to the Father of Epics, did any soul lack a fair share of victual ((Greek), an equal diet); ... ...rethren will fly to meet and welcome. Now, therefore, judge if our Patriot Artists are busy; taking deep counsel how to make the Scene worthy of a loo... ... strangest cloudy coil; out of which has visibly come, as we often say, an Epic Preternatural Machinery of sus- picion; and within which there has dwe... ...e fatallest issue! What L’Escuyer’s word of admonition might be no History records; but the answer to it was a shriek- ing howl from the Aristocrat Pa... ...ey-species. Man-midwives, as Levasseur of the Sarthe, are not wanting. Nor Artists: gross David, with the swoln cheek, has long painted, with genius i...

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...d off to Troyes in Cham- pagne; and nothing left but a few mute Keepers of records; the Demosthenic thunder become extinct, the martyrs of liberty cle... ...ont, to have these late obnoxious Arretes and protests ‘expunged’ from the Records, are received in the most marked manner. Monsieur, who is thought t... ...nch Revolution: V ol. One fighting in its battle-ranks, and never want for Epical Ma- chinery? Be this as it may, the Brigands are clearly got to Pari... ...n Astolpho could have ridden! In the Commons Deputies there are Merchants, Artists, Men of Letters; three hundred and seventy-four Lawyers; (Bouille, ... ...irculate harmo- niously along the benches; nor, according to the Father of Epics, did any soul lack a fair share of victual ((Greek), an equal diet); ...

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...g to die? Not that there is not a passion of a quite other sort, much less epic, far more dramatic and intimate, that comes out of the very frailty of... ...ere your name appears. It is called ‘Fontainebleau: Village Communities of Artists,’ and the signature of R. L. Stevenson will be found annexed Please... ... please keep or return. As for not giving a reduction, what are we? Are we artists or city men? Why do we sneer at stock-brokers? O nary; I will not t... ...lures; but when you actu- ally address him, and bring the two statures and records to confrontation, dismay is the result. By mere continuance of year...

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...elf did so, with a view to accounts; but he should advise all professional records to be destroyed. It may be feared that the two executors did not re... ...latory tone. “I am afraid poor Joe did live with a very odd set of people— artists, and all that kind of thing. I am sure I don’t blame her, poor thin... ...Carey laughed. “That does not seem to have been the opin- ion of the Beast Epic,” said she, and the entrance of Babie prevented them from going furthe... ...Janet had plunged into a regular conversation about exhibitions, pictures, artists, concerts, lectures, &c., before her mother came back, talking with... ... dim corner of the gallery, and its place supplied from the brushes of the artists whom Caroline viewed with loving respect; the drawing-room was reno... ... were descriptions of scenery, fragmentary notes of his- tory and science, records more or less veracious or absurd of personal adventures, and conver... ...t aside her remonstrances. It was not the air of a person who had lost the records of the secret and was afraid to confess, though it was possible she... ...f her son. He ordered dinner with a half humorous respect for the supposed epicurism of a young Guardsman, backed by the desire to be doubly correct b...

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...to entitle it to be considered as classical. Her mouth, too, was very fine—artists, at least, said so, and connois- seurs in beauty; but to me she alw... ... Fothergill. His business was to tell Sowerby that he was to go. All those records there were of little use. The duke had the power; Sowerby knew the ... ...o that inspira- tion which is necessary for the grand turning-point of his epic, so did she slowly approach the hallowed ground on which she would sit...

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... to Know His World and Himself, and Elizabeth L. Einsenstein‘s specialized epic, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultura... ...the order of the bits to be memorized. Similar memory skills kept Western epics alive for centuries. Students warehoused memory To perpetuate ... ...to mention taxes, payrolls, and tributes. Clay tablets the most enduring records Sumerian scribes pressed the triangular tip of a stylus into s... ...all the Babylonian city-states and covered many aspects of daily life. Records of landholding rights, obligations toward individuals, judicial dec... ...Tech siblings. . According to the son of Christopher Columbus, Polo’s epic travelogue aroused his father’s interest in the possibility of findin... ... Many of those reforms impacted trade, court, writing, and governmental records systems. Possibly even more significant was the rapid increase in ... ...pe. Travelers to and from the Orient included not just merchants but also artists, diplomats, doctors, scholars, scientists, and priests from all re... ...cs trained to operate them—served as:  Gathering places for scholars, artists, and literati.  Sanctuaries for foreign translators, émigrés, and...

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...academics or athletics will be nurtured in areas not addressed in the schools or gymnasiums. If I‘m the only one who knows something about the Epic o... ...is otherwise secular war. Whether religious or not, all wars are just. Just ask the generals and kings, the popes and the caliphs. Historical record... .... When a person finds meaning in life, or searches for meaning, it is a sign of being psychologically healthy and happy. One might look at the artist... ...professional sports team, as a means of developing a feeling of importance. Others identify with people by collecting pictures, autographs or record... ...choose? Maslow quoted Child (21) to back up his thesis that the highest achievers in a ‗human area‘ think similarly. Child found that the best artist... ...ke some basic needs for the love and the esteem of others in order to live alone and quietly meditate on the mysteries of nature. And how many artist...

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...e of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa?s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some o...

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...rimage was a fit beginning. Theresa’s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-volumed ro- mances of chivalry and the social con... ...last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; pe... ...has no back- ward pages whereon, if you choose to turn them, you will find records such as might justly cause you either bitterness or shame. I await ... ...ill as a distinguishable vigorous enthusiasm in certain long-haired German artists at Rome, and the youth of other nations who worked or idled near th... ... It is too one-sided a life. I have been seeing a great deal of the German artists here: I travelled from Frankfort with one of them. Some are fine, e... ...e called them—by which he tested his public and deposited small monumental records of his march, were far from having been seen in all their signifi- ... ...ed through all these steadier images a tickling vision of a sheep-stealing epic written with Homeric particularity. When Mrs. Casaubon was announced h...

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...e of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa?s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some o...

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...grimage was a fit beginning. Theresa’s passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many volumed romances of chivalry and the social conqu... ...last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far resonant action; pe... ...l, has no backward pages whereon, if you choose to turn them, you will find records such as might justly cause you either bitterness or shame. I await ... ...ill as a distinguishable vigorous enthusiasm in certain long haired German artists at Rome, and the youth of other nations who worked or idled near th... ... It is too one sided a life. I have been seeing a great deal of the German artists here: I travelled from Frankfort with one of them. Some are fine, ev... ...e called them—by which he tested his public and deposited small monumental records of his march, were far from having been seen in all their significan... ...ed through all these steadier images a tickling vision of a sheep stealing epic written with Homeric particularity. When Mrs. Casaubon was announced h...

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...he Lock” we have already characterised. It is an “Iliad in a nutshell,” an Epic of Lilliput, where all the pro- portions are accurately observed, and ... ...But this part the poet after- wards conceived might be best executed in an epic poem; as the action would make it more animated, and the fable less in... ...at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. ’Tis well—but, artists! who can paint or write, To draw the naked is your true delight. Th... ...chase what he ne’er can taste? Not for himself he sees, or hears, or eats; Artists must choose his pictures, music, meats; He buys for Topham 45 draw... ...tubborn times, Avenging on the sons the fathers’ crimes, And from the long records of distant age Derive incitements to renew thy rage; ... ...own countrymen may learn to judge from Dryden’s Virgil of the most perfect epic performance. And those parts of Homer which have been published alread...

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...laborious pasticcio of Sir Thomas Browne. So with my other works: Cain, an epic, was (save the mark!) an imitation of Sordello: Robin Hood, a tale in ... ...tudents sat, as I was saying, in the corridor, under the mural tablet that records the virtues of Macbean, the former secretary . We would often smile... ...nt T olstoi swings the scythe, lift romance into a near neighbourhood with epic. These aged things have on them the dew of man’s morning; they lie nea... ...in of the old divine. CHAPTER VIII MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET THOSE WHO TRY to be artists use, time after time, the matter of their recollections, setting an... ...ication is no longer by words, but by the instancing of whole biographies, epics, systems of philosophy, and epochs of history, in bulk. That which is...