Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 13
... imagination ; but how changed , when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris- Jove , a beautiful woman , with nothing of the meta- morphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows ! The identity of history is equally ...
... imagination ; but how changed , when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris- Jove , a beautiful woman , with nothing of the meta- morphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows ! The identity of history is equally ...
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... 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 primary value as the first chap- ter of the history of Europe , ( 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 primary value as the first chap- ter of the history of Europe , ( the ...
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... imagination ? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind . They shed an united light on the advancing actor . as by a visible escort of angels . That is it which throws thunder into Chatham's voice , and dignity ...
... imagination ? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind . They shed an united light on the advancing actor . as by a visible escort of angels . That is it which throws thunder into Chatham's voice , and dignity ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Our reading is mendicant and sycophantic . In history , our imagination plays us false . Kingdom and lordship , power and estate , are a gaudier vocabu- lary than private John and Edward in a small house and common ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Our reading is mendicant and sycophantic . In history , our imagination plays us false . Kingdom and lordship , power and estate , are a gaudier vocabu- lary than private John and Edward in a small house and common ...
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... imagination did so by sticking fast where they were , like an axis of the earth . In man- ly hours , we feel that duty is our place . The soul is no traveller ; the wise man stays at home , and when his necessities , his duties , on any ...
... imagination did so by sticking fast where they were , like an axis of the earth . In man- ly hours , we feel that duty is our place . The soul is no traveller ; the wise man stays at home , and when his necessities , his duties , on any ...
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