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Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face , until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened ; then we behold them , and the time when we saw them not is like a dream . Not in nature but in man is all the ...
Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face , until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened ; then we behold them , and the time when we saw them not is like a dream . Not in nature but in man is all the ...
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Behold there in the wood the fine madman ! He is a palace of sweet sounds and sights ; he dilates ; he is twice a man ; he walks with arms akimbo ; he soliloquizes ; he accosts the grass and the trees ; he ; feels the blood of the ...
Behold there in the wood the fine madman ! He is a palace of sweet sounds and sights ; he dilates ; he is twice a man ; he walks with arms akimbo ; he soliloquizes ; he accosts the grass and the trees ; he ; feels the blood of the ...
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I who alone am , I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own , behold now the semblance of my being , in all its height , variety , and curiosity , reiterated in a foreign form ; so that a ...
I who alone am , I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own , behold now the semblance of my being , in all its height , variety , and curiosity , reiterated in a foreign form ; so that a ...
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So , ' t is well ; Never one object underneath the sun Will I behold before my Sophocles : Farewell ; now teach the Romans how to die . Mar. Dost know what ' t is to die ? Soph . Thou dost not , Martius , And , therefore , not what ' t ...
So , ' t is well ; Never one object underneath the sun Will I behold before my Sophocles : Farewell ; now teach the Romans how to die . Mar. Dost know what ' t is to die ? Soph . Thou dost not , Martius , And , therefore , not what ' t ...
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Only itself can inspire whom it will , and behold ! their speech shall be lyrical , and sweet , and universal as the rising of the wind . Yet I desire , even by profane words , if - I may not use sacred , to indicate the THE OVER - SOUL ...
Only itself can inspire whom it will , and behold ! their speech shall be lyrical , and sweet , and universal as the rising of the wind . Yet I desire , even by profane words , if - I may not use sacred , to indicate the THE OVER - SOUL ...
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| Title | Essays, First Series |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 1 Feb 2019 |
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