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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 images , will yet superinduce ...
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 images , will yet superinduce ...
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In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phæbus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities , wherein the face is a confused blur of features , but composed ...
In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phæbus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities , wherein the face is a confused blur of features , but composed ...
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No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the ...
No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the ...
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Not for nothing one face , one character , one fact , makes much impression on him , and another none . This sculpture in the memory is not without preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might ...
Not for nothing one face , one character , one fact , makes much impression on him , and another none . This sculpture in the memory is not without preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might ...
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What pretty oracles nature yields oracles nature yields us on this text , in the face and behaviour of children , babes , and even a and me . brutes ! That divided and rebel SELF - RELIANCE . 41.
What pretty oracles nature yields oracles nature yields us on this text , in the face and behaviour of children , babes , and even a and me . brutes ! That divided and rebel SELF - RELIANCE . 41.
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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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