Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 19
... in their architecture , a beauty as of temperance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , — a builded geometry . Then we have it once again in sculpture , the " tongue on the balance of expres HISTORY . 19.
... in their architecture , a beauty as of temperance itself , limited to the straight line and the square , — a builded geometry . Then we have it once again in sculpture , the " tongue on the balance of expres HISTORY . 19.
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... beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must remain words . There is nothing but is related to us ...
... beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses . Civil and natural history , the history of art and of literature , must be explained from individual history , or must remain words . There is nothing but is related to us ...
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... beauty . In like manner all public facts are to be indi- vidualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imi- tated in the slender ...
... beauty . In like manner all public facts are to be indi- vidualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian imi- tated in the slender ...
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... beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ? The inquiry leads us to that source , at once the essence of genius , of virtue , and of life , which we call Spontaneity or In- stinct . We denote ...
... beauty even into trivial and impure actions , if the least mark of independence appear ? The inquiry leads us to that source , at once the essence of genius , of virtue , and of life , which we call Spontaneity or In- stinct . We denote ...
Page 80
... beauty and lose my sadness . I pack my trunk , embrace my friends , embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples , and there beside me is the stern fact , the sad self , unrelenting , identi- cal , that I fled from . I seek the ...
... beauty and lose my sadness . I pack my trunk , embrace my friends , embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples , and there beside me is the stern fact , the sad self , unrelenting , identi- cal , that I fled from . I seek the ...
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