EssaysHoughton, Mifflin Company, 1883 - 270 pages |
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... senses , but not enough to reach the quick and compel the reproduction of themselves in speech . The poet is the person in whom these powers are in balance , the man with- out impediment , who sees and handles that which others dream of ...
... senses , but not enough to reach the quick and compel the reproduction of themselves in speech . The poet is the person in whom these powers are in balance , the man with- out impediment , who sees and handles that which others dream of ...
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... sense ; to the poet , and to all others ; or , if you please , every man is so far a poet as to be suscep- tible of these enchantments of nature ; for all men have the thoughts whereof the universe is the cele- bration . I find that the ...
... sense ; to the poet , and to all others ; or , if you please , every man is so far a poet as to be suscep- tible of these enchantments of nature ; for all men have the thoughts whereof the universe is the cele- bration . I find that the ...
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... sense of nature ; and the distinctions which we make in events and in affairs , of low and high , honest and base , disappear when nature is used as a symbol . Thought makes everything fit for use . The vocab- ulary of an omniscient man ...
... sense of nature ; and the distinctions which we make in events and in affairs , of low and high , honest and base , disappear when nature is used as a symbol . Thought makes everything fit for use . The vocab- ulary of an omniscient man ...
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... sense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye . In the old mythology , mythologists observe , defects are ascribed to divine natures , as lameness to Vulcan , blindness to Cupid , and the like , to signify exuberances ...
... sense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye . In the old mythology , mythologists observe , defects are ascribed to divine natures , as lameness to Vulcan , blindness to Cupid , and the like , to signify exuberances ...
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... senses with wine and French coffee , thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods . If ... sense , and found within their world another world , or nest of worlds ; VOL . III . 8 for , the metamorphosis once ...
... senses with wine and French coffee , thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods . If ... sense , and found within their world another world , or nest of worlds ; VOL . III . 8 for , the metamorphosis once ...
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