Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1 am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's . strain . ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1 am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's . strain . ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to.
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... hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By surrounding ourselves with the original circum- stances , we invent anew ...
... hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By surrounding ourselves with the original circum- stances , we invent anew ...
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... hand , is that continence or content which finds all the ele- ments of life in its own soil ; and which has its own perils of monotony and deterioration , if not stimulated by foreign infusions . Every thing the individual sees without ...
... hand , is that continence or content which finds all the ele- ments of life in its own soil ; and which has its own perils of monotony and deterioration , if not stimulated by foreign infusions . Every thing the individual sees without ...
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... hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the imagination and not of the fancy , are universal verities . What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Pro- metheus ! Beside its ...
... hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the imagination and not of the fancy , are universal verities . What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Pro- metheus ! Beside its ...
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... hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not them- selves understand . " All the fictions of the ...
... hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not them- selves understand . " All the fictions of the ...
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