Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 13
... fact to our purpose . All these great and transcendent properties are ours . If we di- late in beholding the Greek energy , the Ro- man pride , it is that we are already domesti- cating the same sentiment . Let us find room for this ...
... fact to our purpose . All these great and transcendent properties are ours . If we di- late in beholding the Greek energy , the Ro- man pride , it is that we are already domesti- cating the same sentiment . Let us find room for this ...
Page 14
... fact , and , if we will tarry a little , we may come to learn that here is best . See to it only that thyself is here , -and art and nature , hope and dread , friends , angels and the Supreme Being shall not be absent from the chamber ...
... fact , and , if we will tarry a little , we may come to learn that here is best . See to it only that thyself is here , -and art and nature , hope and dread , friends , angels and the Supreme Being shall not be absent from the chamber ...
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... fact ; it may seem to many men , in revising their experience , that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft , sur- passing the deep ...
... fact ; it may seem to many men , in revising their experience , that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft , sur- passing the deep ...
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... fact often observed , that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion , who cannot write well under any other circumstances . The like force has the passion over all his nature . It expands the sentiment ; it makes ...
... fact often observed , that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion , who cannot write well under any other circumstances . The like force has the passion over all his nature . It expands the sentiment ; it makes ...
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... fact may be observed in every work of the plastic arts . The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible , when it is passing out of criticism and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring wand , but demands ...
... fact may be observed in every work of the plastic arts . The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible , when it is passing out of criticism and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring wand , but demands ...
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