Now an allegory is but a translation of abstract notions into a picture-language, which is itself nothing but an abstraction from ...objects of the senses; the principal being more worthless even than its phantom proxy, both alike unsubstantial, and the former shapeless to boot. On the other hand, a symbol is characterized by a translucence of the special in the individual, or of the general in the special, or of the universal in the general; above all though the translucense of the eternal through and in the temporal. It always partakes of the reality which it renders intelligible; and while it enunciates the whole, abides itself as a living part in that unity of which it is the representative.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the black woman can never forget--however lukewarm the party may to-day appear--that it was a Republican president who struck ...the manacles from her own wrists and gave the possibilities of manhood to her helpless little ones; and to her mind the Democratic Negro is a traitor and a time-server.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal... Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And so on into winter Till even I have ceased... To come as a foot printer, And only some slight beast So mousy or so foxy Shall print there as my proxy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When my old wife lived, upon This day she was both pantler, butler, cook,... Both dame and servant, welcomed all, served all, Would sing her song and dance her turn, now here At upper end o'the table, now i'the middle, On his shoulder, and his, her face afire With labor, and the thing she took to quench it She would to each one sip.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »