Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 23
... heaven seizes only upon those of tender age , and although a beauty overpowering all anal- ysis or comparison and putting us quite be- side ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years , yet the remembrance of these visions outlasts ...
... heaven seizes only upon those of tender age , and although a beauty overpowering all anal- ysis or comparison and putting us quite be- side ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years , yet the remembrance of these visions outlasts ...
Page 30
... heavens fine . Life , with this pair , has no other aim , asks no more , than Juliet , -than Romeo . Night , day , studies , talents , kingdoms , religion , are all contained in this form full of soul , in this soul which is all form ...
... heavens fine . Life , with this pair , has no other aim , asks no more , than Juliet , -than Romeo . Night , day , studies , talents , kingdoms , religion , are all contained in this form full of soul , in this soul which is all form ...
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... heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What is history , " said Napoleon , ' but a fable agreed upon ? This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt , Greece , Gaul , 66 England , War ...
... heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What is history , " said Napoleon , ' but a fable agreed upon ? This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt , Greece , Gaul , 66 England , War ...
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... heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum , and here they will break out in their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven ; then the mad fit returns and they mope and wallow like ...
... heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum , and here they will break out in their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven ; then the mad fit returns and they mope and wallow like ...
Page 56
... heaven - facing speakers . Ah , brother , hold fast to the man and awe the beast ; stop the ebb of thy soul , -ebbing down- ward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that ...
... heaven - facing speakers . Ah , brother , hold fast to the man and awe the beast ; stop the ebb of thy soul , -ebbing down- ward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that ...
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