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She hums the old well - known air through innumerable variations . Nature is full of a sublime family likeness throughout her works , and delights in startling us with resemblances in the most unexpected quarters . I have seen the head ...
She hums the old well - known air through innumerable variations . Nature is full of a sublime family likeness throughout her works , and delights in startling us with resemblances in the most unexpected quarters . I have seen the head ...
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... whose eye - sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side and on that , but they must turn the whole head . The manners of that period are plain and fierce .
... whose eye - sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side and on that , but they must turn the whole head . The manners of that period are plain and fierce .
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One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being ...
One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being ...
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... the head of her who is faithful , and fade on the brow of the inconstant . In the story of the Boy and the Mantle even a mature >> riddle , the Sphinx was slain . What is our reader may be surprised with a glow of virtuous HISTORY .
... the head of her who is faithful , and fade on the brow of the inconstant . In the story of the Boy and the Mantle even a mature >> riddle , the Sphinx was slain . What is our reader may be surprised with a glow of virtuous HISTORY .
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... rose bloom on the head of her who is faithful , and fade on the brow of the inconstant . In the story of the Boy and the Mantle even a mature pleasure at the triumph of the gentle Genelas ; and reader may be surprised with a glow of ...
... rose bloom on the head of her who is faithful , and fade on the brow of the inconstant . In the story of the Boy and the Mantle even a mature pleasure at the triumph of the gentle Genelas ; and reader may be surprised with a glow of ...
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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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