. Love's meinie : lectures on Greek and English birds, given before the University of Oxford . ISTow Holbein paints men gloriously, but never looksat birds; Gibbons, the woodcutter, carves birds, but loves meinie. T1 cant men;—of tlie two faults the last is the worst; but Fig. the right is in looking at the whole of nature in due com-parison, and with universal candour and tenderness. ■72 78. At the whole of nature, I say, not at ^i^^r-natnre—at what yon suppose to be above the visible natureabout you. If you are not inclined to look at the wingsof birds, which God has given you to handle
. Love's meinie : lectures on Greek and English birds, given before the University of Oxford . ISTow Holbein paints men gloriously, but never looksat birds; Gibbons, the woodcutter, carves birds, but loves meinie. T1 cant men;—of tlie two faults the last is the worst; but Fig. the right is in looking at the whole of nature in due com-parison, and with universal candour and tenderness. ■72 78. At the whole of nature, I say, not at ^i^^r-natnre—at what yon suppose to be above the visible natureabout you. If you are not inclined to look at the wingsof birds, which God has given you to handle and to see,much less are you to contemplate, or draw imaginationsof, the wings of angels, which you cant see. Kno^v yourown world first—not denying any other, but being quitesure that the place in which you are now put is the placewith which you are now concerned; and that it will bewiser in you to think the gods themselves may appear inthe form of a dove, or a swallow, than that, by false theftfrom the form of dove or swallow, you can represent theaspect of gods. 79. One sweet instance of such simple conception, inthe end of the Odyssey, must surely recur to your mindsin connection with our subject of to-day, but you may uothave noticed the recurrent manner in which
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