Page:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).djvu/185

 Rh
 * 1) CREATION ##

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = You own a watch the invention of the mind, Though for a single motion 'tis designed, As well as that which is with greater thought With various springs, for various motions wrought. Blackmore—The Creation. | place = Bk. III. The creation and the watch. Hallam—Literatwe of Europe. II. 385, traces its origin to Cicero—De Natura Deorum. Found also in Herbert op Cherbury's treatise De Religions GentUium. Hales—Primitive Origination of Mankind. Boltngbroke, in a letter to Poutlly. Paley used the illustration, which he took from Nidwentyt. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Voltaire) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 1 | text = Are we a piece of machinery that, like the .53olian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident? Or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod? Burns—Letter to Mrs. Dwnhp. New YearDay Morning, 1789. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 147 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Creation is great, and cannot be understood. Caklyle—Essays. Characteristics. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 147 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = [This saying of Alphonso about Ptolemy's astronomy, that] "it seemed a crank machine; that it was pity the Creator had not taken advice." Carlyle—History of Frederick the Great. | place = Bk. II. Ch.VII. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Alphonso}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all? Coleridge—The Eolian Harp. (1795) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony, to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. Dryden—A Song for St. Cecilia's Day. L. 11. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 147 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil, one, and one of good. | author = Homer | work = Iliad. Bk.24. L. 663 | note = {{sc|Pope}}'s trans. | topic = | page = 147 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nature they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. | author = Lowell | work = Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865. VI. n Though to recount almighty works What words of tongue or seraph can suffice, Or heart of man suffice to comprehend? | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. VII. L. 112. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 147 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Open, ye heavens, your living doors; let in The great Creator from his work return'd Magnificent, his six days' work, a world! | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. VII. L. 566. What cause Moved the Creator in his holy rest Through all eternity so late to build In chaos, and, the work begun, how soon Absolved. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. VII. L. 90. u I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalms. CXXXrX. 14. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 147 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Wie aus Duft und Glanz gemischt Du mich schufst, dir dank ich's heut. As thou hast created me out of mingled air and glitter, I thank thee for it. RuCKERT—Die Sterbende Blume. St. 8. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 147 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God. Seeley—Ecce Homo. Ch. XXIV. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Heber}} under {{sc|Architecture}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = When I consider everything that grows Holds in perfection but a httle moment; That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows, Whereon the stars in secret influence comment; Then the conceit of this inconstant stay Sets you most rich in youth before my sight. Shakespeare—Sonnets. XV. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 147 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation. Bernard Shaw—Man and Superman. Act I. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 147 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Through knowledge we behold the world's creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature's cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass. Spenser—Tears of the Muses. Urania. L. 499. Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rank which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue. Benjamin Stillingfleet—Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History. P. 127. (Ed. 1762) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Waller}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = One God, one law,, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves. | author = Tennyson | work = InMemoriam. Conclusion. Last Stanza. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 147 }}