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" While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious... "
The Pleasures of Life Complete - Page 75
by Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - 332 pages
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The Eagle, Volume 18

1895 - 722 pages
...Yet once more let us quote from the author whom we have attempted but unsatisfactorily to pourtray. " While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...lifted horizon, to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or work of the artist's...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 114

1873 - 790 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the age that makes nny two persons, things, situations, ncem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...passion, or any contribution to knowledge, that seems, by u lifted horizon, to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes,...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 19; Volume 82

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...lifted horizon, to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odors, or work of the artist's...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 141

1876 - 606 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two things, persons, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment ; or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or the work of...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 141

1876 - 576 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two things, persons, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment ; or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or the work of...
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Questions of belief

Edward Livermore Burlingame - 1878 - 388 pages
...irresistibly real and attractive for us." And thus, "while all melts under our feet," he goes on, " we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odors, or the work of the...
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Miscellanies, political and literary

sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1878 - 626 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to our knowledge that seems, by a lifted horizon, to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring...
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Is Life Worth Living?

William Hurrell Mallock - 1879 - 332 pages
...insight or intellectual excitement, is irresistibly real and attractive for us." And thus, he adds, " while all melts under our feet, we may well catch...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odors, or the Avork of the...
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Little Classics, Volume 17

Rossiter Johnson - 1880 - 278 pages
...irresistibly real and attractive for us." And thus, " while all melts under our feet," he goes on, " we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odors, or the work of the...
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Is Life Worth Living?

William Hurrell Mallock - 1880 - 196 pages
...insight or intellectual excitement, is irresistibly real and attractive for us.' And thus, he adds, 'while all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribitlion to knowledge, that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit fr<i« for a moment, or...
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