Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... perfect in their senses and in their health , with the finest physical organization in the world . Adults acted with the simplicity and grace of children . They made vases , tragedies , and stat- ues , such as healthy senses should ...
... perfect in their senses and in their health , with the finest physical organization in the world . Adults acted with the simplicity and grace of children . They made vases , tragedies , and stat- ues , such as healthy senses should ...
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... perfect man , Commands all light , all influence , all fate ; Nothing to him falls early or too late . Our acts our angels are , or good or ill , Our fatal shadows that walk by us still . " Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest ...
... perfect man , Commands all light , all influence , all fate ; Nothing to him falls early or too late . Our acts our angels are , or good or ill , Our fatal shadows that walk by us still . " Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest ...
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... perfect sweetness the independ- ence of solitude . — The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is , that it scatters your force . It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If you maintain a ...
... perfect sweetness the independ- ence of solitude . — The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is , that it scatters your force . It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If you maintain a ...
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... perfect faith is due . He may err in the expression of them , but he knows that these things are so , like day and night , not to be disputed . My wilful actions and acquisitions are but roving ; -the idlest reverie , the faintest ...
... perfect faith is due . He may err in the expression of them , but he knows that these things are so , like day and night , not to be disputed . My wilful actions and acquisitions are but roving ; -the idlest reverie , the faintest ...
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... to for- mer roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are ; they exist with God to - day . There is no time to them . There is simply the rose ; it is perfect in every moment of its existence . Before a leaf - 58 ESSAY II .
... to for- mer roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are ; they exist with God to - day . There is no time to them . There is simply the rose ; it is perfect in every moment of its existence . Before a leaf - 58 ESSAY II .
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