Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient ac- count of what manner of persons they were and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ...
... Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient ac- count of what manner of persons they were and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama , and philosophy ...
Page 84
... Plutarch's he- roes , three or four and twenty centuries ago . Not in time is the race progressive . Phocion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes , are great men , but they leave no class . He who is really of their class will not be ...
... Plutarch's he- roes , three or four and twenty centuries ago . Not in time is the race progressive . Phocion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes , are great men , but they leave no class . He who is really of their class will not be ...
Page 127
... Plutarch said . When we see a soul whose acts are all regal , graceful and pleasant as roses , we must thank God that such things can be and are , and not turn sourly on the angel and say ' Crump is a better man with his grunting ...
... Plutarch said . When we see a soul whose acts are all regal , graceful and pleasant as roses , we must thank God that such things can be and are , and not turn sourly on the angel and say ' Crump is a better man with his grunting ...
Page 167
... Plutarch said , " enamelled in fire , " and make the study of midnight : " Thou art not gone being gone , where'er thou art , Thou leav'st in him thy watchful eyes , in him thy loving heart . " In the noon and the afternoon of life we ...
... Plutarch said , " enamelled in fire , " and make the study of midnight : " Thou art not gone being gone , where'er thou art , Thou leav'st in him thy watchful eyes , in him thy loving heart . " In the noon and the afternoon of life we ...
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... Plutarch , in Shakspeare , in Cervantes . Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind , and behold , all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become ...
... Plutarch , in Shakspeare , in Cervantes . Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind , and behold , all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become ...
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