Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 5
... actions into perspective and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon , Alcibiades ...
... actions into perspective and as crabs , goats , scorpions , the balance , and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac , so I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon , Alcibiades ...
Page 13
... in the utmost freedom of action , and never transgressing the ideal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods , and , though in con- - vulsive pain or mortal combat , never daring to break HISTORY . 13.
... in the utmost freedom of action , and never transgressing the ideal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods , and , though in con- - vulsive pain or mortal combat , never daring to break HISTORY . 13.
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... actions of Pho- cion ? : Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of ...
... actions of Pho- cion ? : Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of ...
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... actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep is the chain of affinity . ---- A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a ...
... actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep is the chain of affinity . ---- A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a ...
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... water , and wood ? Do not the lovely attributes of the maiden child predict the refinements and decorations of civil society ? Here also we are reminded of the action of man on man . A mind might ponder its 3 HISTORY . 33.
... water , and wood ? Do not the lovely attributes of the maiden child predict the refinements and decorations of civil society ? Here also we are reminded of the action of man on man . A mind might ponder its 3 HISTORY . 33.
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