Essays, Volume 1David McKay, 1888 - 307 pages |
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Page 14
... plant or an animal , it has an architecture of its own , and adorns nature with a new thing . The thought and the form are equal in the order of time , but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form . The poet has a new ...
... plant or an animal , it has an architecture of its own , and adorns nature with a new thing . The thought and the form are equal in the order of time , but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form . The poet has a new ...
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... planting the poor fungus : so she shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless spores , any one of which , being preserved , transmits new billions of spores to - morrow or next day . The new agaric of this hour has a chance which ...
... planting the poor fungus : so she shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless spores , any one of which , being preserved , transmits new billions of spores to - morrow or next day . The new agaric of this hour has a chance which ...
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... plants and animals . The poet knows that he speaks adequately , then , only when he speaks some- what wildly , or , " with the flower of the mind ; ' not with the intellect , used as an organ , but with the intellect released from all ...
... plants and animals . The poet knows that he speaks adequately , then , only when he speaks some- what wildly , or , " with the flower of the mind ; ' not with the intellect , used as an organ , but with the intellect released from all ...
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... plants also are animals ; or affirms a man to be a heavenly tree , growing with his root , which is his head , upward ; and , as George Chapman , following him , writes , — " So in our tree of man , whose nervie root Springs in his top ...
... plants also are animals ; or affirms a man to be a heavenly tree , growing with his root , which is his head , upward ; and , as George Chapman , following him , writes , — " So in our tree of man , whose nervie root Springs in his top ...
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... plant- ing , the western clearing , Oregon , and Texas , are yet unsung . Yet America is a poem in our eyes ; its ample geography dazzles the imagi- nation , and it will not wait long for metres . If I have not found that excellent ...
... plant- ing , the western clearing , Oregon , and Texas , are yet unsung . Yet America is a poem in our eyes ; its ample geography dazzles the imagi- nation , and it will not wait long for metres . If I have not found that excellent ...
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