..." How serpentine are the foldings of the line of beauty in the poetical fancies of some writers." " A certain tendency to insanity has always attended...excess of light. The trances of Socrates; the union of Photinus; the vision of Porphyry: the conversion of Paul; the aurora of Behmen; the convulsions of...

...and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state ESSAY IX. of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, which is its...attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if c blasted with excess of light.' The trances of Socrates ; the ' union ' of Plotinus ; the vision of...

...individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration,—which is its rarer appearance,—to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion, in which form...attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been " blasted with excess of light." The trances of Socrates, the "union" of Plotinus, the...

...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstacy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is...light." The trances of Socrates ; the " union " of Flotinus ; the vision of Porphyry ; the convursion of Paul ; the aurora of Behmen ; the convulsions...

...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstacy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is...light." The trances of Socrates ; the " union" of Flotinus ; the vision of Porphyry ; the conversion of Paul ; the aurora of Behmen ; the convulsions...

...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is...attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light." The trances of Socrates, the " union " of Plotinus, the...

...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from iz ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is its rarer appearance,— to the faintest glow of virtaous emotion, in which form it warms, like our household fires, all the families and associations...

...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is...attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been " blasted with excess of light." The trances of Socrates, the "union" of Plotinus, the...

...individual ; from an ecstacy, a trance, and prophetic inspiration, to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion. A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religions sense in men, as if blasted with excess of light. The trances of Socrates, the union of Plotinus,...

...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is...attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light." The trances of Socrates, the "union" of Plotinus, the...