Crowned Masterpieces Of Literature That Have Advanced Civilization PDF Download

Excerpt from Crowned Masterpieces of Literature That Have Advanced Civilization, Vol. 3 of 10: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Death, says the Philosopher, is a commingling of Eternity with Time; in the death of a good man, Eternity is seen looking through Time. With such a sublimity here offered to eye and heart, it is not unnatural to look with new earnestness before and behind, and ask, what space in those years and eons of com puted Time this man with his activity may influence; what rela tion to the world of change and mortality, which the earthly name Life, he who is even now called to the Immortals has borne and may bear. Goethe, it is commonly said, made a new era in Literature; a Poetic era began with him, the end or ulterior tendencies of which are yet nowise generally visible. This common saying is a true one, and true with a far deeper meaning than, to the most, it conveys. Were the Poet but a sweet sound and singer, solac ing the ear of the idle with pleasant songs, and the new Poet one who could sing his idle, pleasant song, to a new air, we should account him a small matter, and his performance small. But this man, it is not unknown to many, was a Poet in such a sense as the late generations have witnessed no other; as it is, in this generation, a kind of distinction to believe in the exist ence of, in the possibility of. The true Poet is ever, as of old, the Seer; whose eye has been gifted to discern the godlike mys tery of God's universe, and decipher some new lines of its celes tial writing; we can still call him a Vates and Seer; for he see: into this greatest of secrets, the open secret hidden things be come clear; how the future (both resting on Eternity) is but an other phasis of the present; thereby are his words in very truth prophetic; what he has spoken shall. Be done. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.