Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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Page 8
... meets Osiris - Jove , a beautiful woman , with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows ! The identity of history is equally intrinsic , the diversity equally obvious . There is at the ...
... meets Osiris - Jove , a beautiful woman , with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows ! The identity of history is equally intrinsic , the diversity equally obvious . There is at the ...
Page 13
... meet his eyes . The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation ; and this intel- lectual nomadism , in its excess , bankrupts the mind , through the dissipation of power on a miscellany of objects . The home - keeping wit ...
... meet his eyes . The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation ; and this intel- lectual nomadism , in its excess , bankrupts the mind , through the dissipation of power on a miscellany of objects . The home - keeping wit ...
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... meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems superficial and pedantic . When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me- when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar ...
... meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems superficial and pedantic . When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me- when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar ...
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... meet in numerous conventions ; the greater the concourse , and with_each_new uproar of announcement , The delegation from Essex ! The Democrats from New Hampshire ! The Whigs of Maine ! the young patriot feels himself stronger than ...
... meet in numerous conventions ; the greater the concourse , and with_each_new uproar of announcement , The delegation from Essex ! The Democrats from New Hampshire ! The Whigs of Maine ! the young patriot feels himself stronger than ...
Page 53
... meet ; And all that Nature made thy own , Floating in air or pent in stone , Will rive the hills and swim the sea , And , like thy shadow , follow thee . EVER since I was a boy , I have wished to write a dis- course on Compensation ...
... meet ; And all that Nature made thy own , Floating in air or pent in stone , Will rive the hills and swim the sea , And , like thy shadow , follow thee . EVER since I was a boy , I have wished to write a dis- course on Compensation ...
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