Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 23
... face of nature radiant with purple light , the morning and the night varied en- chantments ; when a single tone of one voice could make the heart beat , and the most trivial circumstance associated with one form is put in the amber of ...
... face of nature radiant with purple light , the morning and the night varied en- chantments ; when a single tone of one voice could make the heart beat , and the most trivial circumstance associated with one form is put in the amber of ...
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... faces as he looks on them . The trees of the forest , the waving grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent ; and almost he fears to trust them with the secret which they seem to invite . Yet nature soothes and sympathizes ...
... faces as he looks on them . The trees of the forest , the waving grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent ; and almost he fears to trust them with the secret which they seem to invite . Yet nature soothes and sympathizes ...
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... face and form ? We are touched with emotions of tenderness and complacency , but we cannot find whereat this dainty emotion , this wandering gleam , point . It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization ...
... face and form ? We are touched with emotions of tenderness and complacency , but we cannot find whereat this dainty emotion , this wandering gleam , point . It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization ...
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... faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy cf verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some ...
... faces and forms which , without any resembling feature , make a like impression on the beholder . A particular picture or copy cf verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some ...
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... face is a confused blur of feat- ures , but composed of incorrupt , sharply de- fined and symmetrical features , whose eye- sockets are so formed that it would be im- possible for such eyes to squint and take fur- tive glances on this ...
... face is a confused blur of feat- ures , but composed of incorrupt , sharply de- fined and symmetrical features , whose eye- sockets are so formed that it would be im- possible for such eyes to squint and take fur- tive glances on this ...
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