Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... poets , the ro- mancers , do not in their stateliest pictures in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius - anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ...
... poets , the ro- mancers , do not in their stateliest pictures in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius - anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ...
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... poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are ' friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For the eye is fastened on the life , and slights the circum stance . Every chemical substance ...
... poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are ' friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For the eye is fastened on the life , and slights the circum stance . Every chemical substance ...
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... poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it , and , whilst I look at it , its ...
... poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it , and , whilst I look at it , its ...
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... poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship- builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell preëxist in the secreting organs ...
... poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship- builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell preëxist in the secreting organs ...
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... poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confession true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him ...
... poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confession true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him ...
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