Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 8
... constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What is History , " said Napoleon , " but a fable agreed up- on ? " This life of ours is stuck round 8 ESSAY I.
... constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What is History , " said Napoleon , " but a fable agreed up- on ? " This life of ours is stuck round 8 ESSAY I.
Page 12
... fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it , and , whilst I look at it , its outline and texture ...
... fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it , and , whilst I look at it , its outline and texture ...
Page 26
... - ject to papacy , we prayed so often and with such fervor , whilst now we pray with the utmost coldness and very seldom ? " The advancing man discovers how deep a proper- ty he has in literature , in all fable as 26 ESSAY I.
... - ject to papacy , we prayed so often and with such fervor , whilst now we pray with the utmost coldness and very seldom ? " The advancing man discovers how deep a proper- ty he has in literature , in all fable as 26 ESSAY I.
Page 27
... fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own . head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the imagination and not of the fancy , are ...
... fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own . head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the imagination and not of the fancy , are ...
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... fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half human . Every animal of the barn - yard , the field , and the for- est , of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and to leave the ...
... fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half human . Every animal of the barn - yard , the field , and the for- est , of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and to leave the ...
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