"Sec" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... progress is made after the obstruction at the beginning. As a first intimation of the coming experiences we may take up the obstacles in the path in the first section of the parable, which are successfully removed, inasmuch as the wanderer soon after reaches the lovely region (Sec. 3). ...
— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer
... 'Theology in the English Poets', p. 259.) With the first part of the poem Wordsworth's 'Sonnet composed at——Castle' during the Scotch Tour of 1803 may be compared (p. 410). For a critical estimate of the poem see 'Modern Painters', part III. sec. II, chap. iv. Ruskin alludes to "the real and high action of the imagination in Wordsworth's 'Yew-trees' (perhaps the most vigorous and solemn bit of forest landscape ever painted). It is too long to quote, but the reader should refer to it: let him note especially, if painter, that pure touch ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. II. • William Wordsworth
... Sec. 1. Not to touch the Earth, pp. 1-18.—The priest of Aricia and the Golden Bough, 1 sq.; sacred kings and priests forbidden to touch the ground with their feet, 2-4; certain persons on certain occasions forbidden to touch the ground with their feet, 4-6; sacred persons apparently thought ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer
... made by Bernard de Ventadour, a Provencal poet in the middle of the twelfth century: and Millot observes, that it was a singular instance of erudition in a Troubadour. But it is not impossible, as Warton remarks, (Hist. of Engl. Poetry, vol. ii. sec. x. p 215.) but that he might have been indebted for it to some of ...
— The Divine Comedy • Dante
... to the importation of quicksilver (via Manila) from China to Nueva Espana. (Sec Vol. XVII, ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XVIII, 1617-1620 • Various
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