Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 15
... true ; and a better valor and a purer truth shall one day execute their will and put the world to shame . Or why should a woman liken herself to any historical woman , and think , because Sappho , or Sévigné , or De Staël , or the ...
... true ; and a better valor and a purer truth shall one day execute their will and put the world to shame . Or why should a woman liken herself to any historical woman , and think , because Sappho , or Sévigné , or De Staël , or the ...
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... true to your own act , and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age . It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person , " Always do what you are ...
... true to your own act , and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age . It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person , " Always do what you are ...
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... true to their throbbing experi- ence , one must not be too old . The delicious fancies of youth reject the least savor of a mature philosophy , as chilling with age and pedantry their purple bloom . But And therefore I know LOVE, ESSAY III.
... true to their throbbing experi- ence , one must not be too old . The delicious fancies of youth reject the least savor of a mature philosophy , as chilling with age and pedantry their purple bloom . But And therefore I know LOVE, ESSAY III.
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... true faerie land to what roses and violets hint and foreshow . We cannot get at beauty . Its nature is like opaline doves ' - neck lustres , hovering and evanescent . Herein it resem- bles the most excellent things , which all have this ...
... true faerie land to what roses and violets hint and foreshow . We cannot get at beauty . Its nature is like opaline doves ' - neck lustres , hovering and evanescent . Herein it resem- bles the most excellent things , which all have this ...
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... true palace of beauty , more and more inflame their love of it , and by this love extinguishing the base affection , as the sun puts out the fire by shining on the hearth , they become pure and hallowed . By conversation with that which ...
... true palace of beauty , more and more inflame their love of it , and by this love extinguishing the base affection , as the sun puts out the fire by shining on the hearth , they become pure and hallowed . By conversation with that which ...
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