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Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce ...
Every one must have observed faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce ...
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In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phæbus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities , wherein the face is a confused blur of features , but composed ...
In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phæbus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities , wherein the face is a confused blur of features , but composed ...
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... or has shared the throb of thousands in a national exultation or alarm ? No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a ...
... or has shared the throb of thousands in a national exultation or alarm ? No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a ...
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... or has shared the throb of thousands in a national exultation or alarm ? No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a ...
... or has shared the throb of thousands in a national exultation or alarm ? No man can antedate his experience , or guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a ...
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... you shall not see the face of man ; you shall not hear any name ; — the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience. You take the way from man, not to man.
... you shall not see the face of man ; you shall not hear any name ; — the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience. You take the way from man, not to man.
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| Title | Essays, First Series Volume 2 of Works, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | John B. Alden, 1886 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 343 pages |
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