Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 26
... stands to him for a representative of all select things and virtues . For that reason the lover sees never personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others . His friends find in her a likeness to her mother , or her ...
... stands to him for a representative of all select things and virtues . For that reason the lover sees never personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others . His friends find in her a likeness to her mother , or her ...
Page 37
... Stand before each of its tablets and say , " Here is one of my coverings ; under this fantastic , or odious , or graceful mask did my Proteus nature hide itself . This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to our- selves . This ...
... Stand before each of its tablets and say , " Here is one of my coverings ; under this fantastic , or odious , or graceful mask did my Proteus nature hide itself . This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to our- selves . This ...
Page 39
... standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all na- tions . Who cares what the fact was , when we have thus made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way ...
... standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all na- tions . Who cares what the fact was , when we have thus made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way ...
Page 40
... stand before every public , every private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon , before a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More , of Sidney , of Marmaduke Robinson ; before a French Reign of Terror , and a Salem ...
... stand before every public , every private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon , before a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More , of Sidney , of Marmaduke Robinson ; before a French Reign of Terror , and a Salem ...
Page 55
... stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suffers all things on their account . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it ...
... stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suffers all things on their account . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity and exhibits him as the defier of Jove , it ...
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