Essays, Volume 1David McKay, 1888 - 307 pages |
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Page 17
... leaving these victims of vanity , let us , with new hope , observe how nature , by wor- thier impulses , has ensured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming , namely , by the beauty of things , which becomes 2 ...
... leaving these victims of vanity , let us , with new hope , observe how nature , by wor- thier impulses , has ensured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming , namely , by the beauty of things , which becomes 2 ...
Page 27
... leave another to baptise her , but baptises her- self ; and this through the metamorphosis again . I remember that a certain poet described it to me thus : Genius is the activity which repairs the de- cays of THE POET . 27.
... leave another to baptise her , but baptises her- self ; and this through the metamorphosis again . I remember that a certain poet described it to me thus : Genius is the activity which repairs the de- cays of THE POET . 27.
Page 47
... leave the world , and know the muse only . Thou shalt not know any longer the times , customs , graces , politics , or opinions of men , but shalt take all from the muse . For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal ...
... leave the world , and know the muse only . Thou shalt not know any longer the times , customs , graces , politics , or opinions of men , but shalt take all from the muse . For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal ...
Page 57
... leave me as it found me , -neither better nor worse . So is it with this calamity : it does not touch me : some ... leaves no scar . It was caducous . I grieve that grief to me . can teach me nothing , nor carry me one stepny into real ...
... leave me as it found me , -neither better nor worse . So is it with this calamity : it does not touch me : some ... leaves no scar . It was caducous . I grieve that grief to me . can teach me nothing , nor carry me one stepny into real ...
Page 61
... leave it without noticing the capital exception . For temperament is a power which no man will- ingly hears any one praise but himself . On the platform of physics , we cannot resist the con- tracting influences of so - called science ...
... leave it without noticing the capital exception . For temperament is a power which no man will- ingly hears any one praise but himself . On the platform of physics , we cannot resist the con- tracting influences of so - called science ...
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