Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 25
... write well under any other circumstances . The like force has the passion over all his nature . It expands the sentiment ; it makes the clown gentle and gives the coward heart . Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart ...
... write well under any other circumstances . The like force has the passion over all his nature . It expands the sentiment ; it makes the clown gentle and gives the coward heart . Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart ...
Page 38
... writes the character of the wise man . books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the loud praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he ...
... writes the character of the wise man . books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the loud praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he ...
Page 57
... writes out freely his humor , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fan tastic as a dream , yet it is much more attrac- tive than the more dramatic pieces of the same author , for the reason ...
... writes out freely his humor , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fan tastic as a dream , yet it is much more attrac- tive than the more dramatic pieces of the same author , for the reason ...
Page 62
... write our an- nals , —from an ethical reformation , from an influx of the ever new , ever sanative con- science , if we would trulier express our cen- tral and wide - related nature , instead of this old chronology of selfishness and ...
... write our an- nals , —from an ethical reformation , from an influx of the ever new , ever sanative con- science , if we would trulier express our cen- tral and wide - related nature , instead of this old chronology of selfishness and ...
Page 68
... write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then , again , do not tell ...
... write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then , again , do not tell ...
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