Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and execu- tioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an ...
... become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , martyr and execu- tioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an ...
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... becomes subjective ; in other words , there is properly no history ; only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know ...
... becomes subjective ; in other words , there is properly no history ; only biography . Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know ...
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... becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely - but , by watching for a time his motions and plays , the painter enters into his nature , and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos ...
... becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely - but , by watching for a time his motions and plays , the painter enters into his nature , and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos ...
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... becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave ...
... becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave ...
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... become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the ... becomes a thought to me- when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we ...
... become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the ... becomes a thought to me- when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we ...
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