Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 22
... persons are love's world , and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love , without being tempted to unsay , as treasonable to nature , aught derogatory to the social ...
... persons are love's world , and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love , without being tempted to unsay , as treasonable to nature , aught derogatory to the social ...
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... why Beauty was ever painted with Loves and Graces attending her steps . Her existence makes the world rich . Though she extrudes all other persons from his attention as cheap and unworthy , she indemnifies him by carrying LOVE . 25.
... why Beauty was ever painted with Loves and Graces attending her steps . Her existence makes the world rich . Though she extrudes all other persons from his attention as cheap and unworthy , she indemnifies him by carrying LOVE . 25.
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... persons not of her blood . The lover sees no resemblance except to sum- mer evenings and diamond mornings , to rain- bows and the song of birds . Beauty is ever that divine thing the an- cients esteemed it . It is , they said , the flow ...
... persons not of her blood . The lover sees no resemblance except to sum- mer evenings and diamond mornings , to rain- bows and the song of birds . Beauty is ever that divine thing the an- cients esteemed it . It is , they said , the flow ...
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... are ever grouping themselves according to higher or more interior laws . Neighborhood , size , numbers , habits , persons , lose by degrees their power over us . Cause and effect , real affinities , the longing for har- LOVE . 29.
... are ever grouping themselves according to higher or more interior laws . Neighborhood , size , numbers , habits , persons , lose by degrees their power over us . Cause and effect , real affinities , the longing for har- LOVE . 29.
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... persons , must become more im- personal every day . Of this at first it gives no hint . Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other across crowded rooms with eyes so full of mutual intelligence , -- of the precious ...
... persons , must become more im- personal every day . Of this at first it gives no hint . Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other across crowded rooms with eyes so full of mutual intelligence , -- of the precious ...
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