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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 . a a There is one mind.
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 . a a There is one mind.
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I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which ...
I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which ...
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The home - keeping wit , on the other hand , is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil ; and which has its own perils of monotony and deterioration , if not stimulated by foreign infusions .
The home - keeping wit , on the other hand , is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil ; and which has its own perils of monotony and deterioration , if not stimulated by foreign infusions .
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One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every 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 ...
One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every 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 ...
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The universal nature , too strong for the petty nature of the bard , sits on his neck and writes through his hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory .
The universal nature , too strong for the petty nature of the bard , sits on his neck and writes through his hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory .
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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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