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Page xxxviii
... expression , on eighteenth - century models ; but in the ten years preceding his visit to England his verse had shown the influence of his growth ; indeed the thoughts in all the essays had been cast in po- etic mould , many of them ...
... expression , on eighteenth - century models ; but in the ten years preceding his visit to England his verse had shown the influence of his growth ; indeed the thoughts in all the essays had been cast in po- etic mould , many of them ...
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... expression of nature , in minia- ture . For although the works of nature are in- numerable and all different , the result or the expression of them all is similar and single . Na- ture is a sea of forms radically alike and even unique ...
... expression of nature , in minia- ture . For although the works of nature are in- numerable and all different , the result or the expression of them all is similar and single . Na- ture is a sea of forms radically alike and even unique ...
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... expression . for the universe . God is the all - fair . Truth , and goodness , and beauty , are but different faces of the same All . But beauty in nature is not ultimate . It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty , and is not ...
... expression . for the universe . God is the all - fair . Truth , and goodness , and beauty , are but different faces of the same All . But beauty in nature is not ultimate . It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty , and is not ...
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