Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 17
... painted over churches , - a round block in the centre , which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth , supported on either side by wide - stretched symmetrical wings . What appears once in the atmosphere may appear often , and it ...
... painted over churches , - a round block in the centre , which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth , supported on either side by wide - stretched symmetrical wings . What appears once in the atmosphere may appear often , and it ...
Page 34
... the Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have described that goddess , in a robe painted all over with wonderful events and experiences ; - his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be 34 ESSAY I.
... the Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have described that goddess , in a robe painted all over with wonderful events and experiences ; - his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be 34 ESSAY I.
Page 95
... painting of fable , of history , of law , of proverbs , of conversation . It finds a tongue in literature unawares . Thus the Greeks called Jupiter , Su- preme Mind ; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions , they ...
... painting of fable , of history , of law , of proverbs , of conversation . It finds a tongue in literature unawares . Thus the Greeks called Jupiter , Su- preme Mind ; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions , they ...
Page 108
... paints itself forth ; but no fact is begot- ten by it ; it cannot work ; for it is not . It cannot work any good ; it cannot work any harm . It is harm inasmuch as it is worse not to be than to be . We feel defrauded of the retribution ...
... paints itself forth ; but no fact is begot- ten by it ; it cannot work ; for it is not . It cannot work any good ; it cannot work any harm . It is harm inasmuch as it is worse not to be than to be . We feel defrauded of the retribution ...
Page 124
... paint , against the coward and the robber ; but we have been ourselves that coward and robber , and shall be again , not in the low circumstance , but in comparison with the grandeurs possible to the soul . A little consideration of ...
... paint , against the coward and the robber ; but we have been ourselves that coward and robber , and shall be again , not in the low circumstance , but in comparison with the grandeurs possible to the soul . A little consideration of ...
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