Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... flowers and wild ornaments grave and gay . will not make more account of them . I believe in Eternity . I can find Greece , Asia , Italy , Spain , and the Islands - the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras in my own ...
... flowers and wild ornaments grave and gay . will not make more account of them . I believe in Eternity . I can find Greece , Asia , Italy , Spain , and the Islands - the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras in my own ...
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... flowers , its locust , elm , oak , pine , fir , and spruce . The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone sub- dued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man . The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower , with the lightness ...
... flowers , its locust , elm , oak , pine , fir , and spruce . The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone sub- dued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man . The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower , with the lightness ...
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... flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to natures out of him , and predict the world he is to inhabit , as the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists , or the wings of an eagle in the egg presuppose air . He cannot ...
... flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to natures out of him , and predict the world he is to inhabit , as the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists , or the wings of an eagle in the egg presuppose air . He cannot ...
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... flower there is no more ; in the leafless root there is no less . Its nature is satisfied , and it satisfies nature , in all moments alike . But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye ...
... flower there is no more ; in the leafless root there is no less . Its nature is satisfied , and it satisfies nature , in all moments alike . But man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present , but with reverted eye ...
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... flower , with no room for its roots and too much sunshine for its head , by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener , is made the banian of the forest , yielding shade and fruit to wide neighbourhoods of men . --- IV ...
... flower , with no room for its roots and too much sunshine for its head , by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener , is made the banian of the forest , yielding shade and fruit to wide neighbourhoods of men . --- IV ...
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