Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 20
... less than the tender maiden , though in a different and nobler sort . For it is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom , caught from a wandering spark out of another pri- vate heart , glows and ...
... less than the tender maiden , though in a different and nobler sort . For it is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom , caught from a wandering spark out of another pri- vate heart , glows and ...
Page 26
... less charm which glances from one and an- other 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 ...
... less charm which glances from one and an- other 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 ...
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... less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But always the thought is ...
... less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But always the thought is ...
Page 55
... less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . Every man is a divinity in disguise , a god playing the fool . It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into ...
... less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . Every man is a divinity in disguise , a god playing the fool . It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into ...
Page 58
... But along with the civil and metaphysical history of man , another history goes daily forward , —that of the external world , -in which he is not less strictly implicated . He is the compend of time ; he is also the 58 HISTORY .
... But along with the civil and metaphysical history of man , another history goes daily forward , —that of the external world , -in which he is not less strictly implicated . He is the compend of time ; he is also the 58 HISTORY .
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