Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 7
... draw a stroke like the portrait of Lord Evandale given by Balfour of Burley . Thomas Carlyle , with his natural taste for what is manly and daring in character , has suffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from his biograph ...
... draw a stroke like the portrait of Lord Evandale given by Balfour of Burley . Thomas Carlyle , with his natural taste for what is manly and daring in character , has suffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from his biograph ...
Page 36
... drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body de- pends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours ...
... drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body de- pends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours ...
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... draw a tree without in some sort 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 ...
... draw a tree without in some sort 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 ...
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... draws us because we are Greeks . It is a state through which every man in some sort passes . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the per- fection of the senses , ―of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the ...
... draws us because we are Greeks . It is a state through which every man in some sort passes . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the per- fection of the senses , ―of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the ...
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... draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general state- ment to explore the reason of this correspond- ency . Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts ...
... draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general state- ment to explore the reason of this correspond- ency . Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts ...
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