Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... genius and cultivation do not satisfy the imagination and the serene Themis , none can , -certainly not she . Why not ? She has a new and unattempted prob- lem to solve , perchance that of the happiest nature that ever bloomed . Let the ...
... genius and cultivation do not satisfy the imagination and the serene Themis , none can , -certainly not she . Why not ? She has a new and unattempted prob- lem to solve , perchance that of the happiest nature that ever bloomed . Let the ...
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... genius is illustrated by the en- tire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought ...
... genius is illustrated by the en- tire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought ...
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... genius , -anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we in- trude , that this is for our betters ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakespeare says of the king , yonder slip ...
... genius , -anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we in- trude , that this is for our betters ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakespeare says of the king , yonder slip ...
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... genius and crea- tive principle of each and of all eras , in my own mind . We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experience and verifying them here . All his- tory becomes subjective ; in ...
... genius and crea- tive principle of each and of all eras , in my own mind . We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experience and verifying them here . All his- tory becomes subjective ; in ...
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... genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young child plays with greybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb , that di- verge ...
... genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young child plays with greybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb , that di- verge ...
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