The letter goes on:-- How does the magnum opus progress?
In this letter he speaks of being attacked by a form of nervous prostration which renders him incapable of continued work, so that the magnum opus is at a standstill.
I have now got my magnum opus off my hands, and hope to send you a copy next month.
His magnum opus was his edition of the Works of Dr.
His magnum opusis his monumental Life of John Milton (6 vols.
For mony a year it has been my hope and intention to lay mysel' on and produce a magnum opus.
You talk as if a magnum opus could be done for the wishing.
Why don't you go at some more serious work; some magnum opus that would bring your whole strength into play?
Morison's chief occupation at Oxford was the preparation of his long promised magnum opus, the Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis.
This was the material upon which Sir Joseph Hooker was to base his Magnum Opus, the Flora of British India.
Intimating to Mr. Temple that “a part of his magnum opus was ready for the press,” he added that Hawkins should not be spared.
They are not very numerous nor consecutive, nor do they imply that at the time they were taken down they were intended as portions of the magnum opus.
It was by the marriage of gold and silver that very many alchemists considered that the magnum opus was to be achieved.
My friend," he said, "I have completed my magnum opus.
In other words, it is an exact theorem and solution of the Magnum Opus; a symbol of the philosophy and accomplishment of the GREAT WORK.
Such students need experience no real difficulty in finding a clew to the labyrinth of life, or, as our ancient brothers put it in regard to the Magnum Opus--"a key to the closed palace of the king.
Such is the magnum opus of the sages; such is the whole secret of Hermes; such is the stone of the philosophers.
His celebrated azoth some say was magnetised electricity, and others that his magnum opus was the science of fire.
Magnetised electricity is the first matter of the magnum opus.
Coleridge, when he was by himself, was never sure of this; there was his magnum opus, the revelation of all philosophy; and he sometimes has doubts of the worth of his own poetry.
He projected a great work on Christian philosophy, which was to have been his magnum opus, but he never wrote it.
His Life of Washington--completed in 1859--was his magnum opus, and is accepted as standard authority.
Meanwhile, during his twelve years' imprisonment in the Tower, he had written his magnum opus, the History of the World.
The protection universally granted to these sciences by the sovereigns of the period was indeed justified by the admirable works of inventors who, starting from the search for the magnum opus, arrived at astonishing results.
The composition of gold is not the end, but only an incident of our researches; else we should not call our undertaking Magnum Opus, the great work.
If well maintained, however, it will be an honourable one, and if the Magnum Opus succeed, it will afford me some repose.
The last post brought a letter from Mr. Heath, proposing to set off his engravings for the Magnum Opus against my contributions for the Keepsake.
The obtaining of "philosophical mercury," the imaginary virtues of which the alchemists never tired of relating, was generally held to be essential for the attainment of the magnum opus.
And so the alchemists taught that for the achievement of the magnum opus on the physical plane, we must strip the metals of their outward properties in order to develop the essence within.
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