Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 139
... us evermore from premature ideas . Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face , until the hour ar rives when the mind is ripened ; then we behold them , and the time when we saw them not 1 SPIRITUAL LAWS . 139.
... us evermore from premature ideas . Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face , until the hour ar rives when the mind is ripened ; then we behold them , and the time when we saw them not 1 SPIRITUAL LAWS . 139.
Page 168
... Behold there in the wood the fine madman ! He is a palace of sweet sounds and sights ; he dilates ; he is twice a man ; he walks with arms akimbo ; he soliloquizes ; he accosts the grass and the trees ; he feels the blood of the violet ...
... Behold there in the wood the fine madman ! He is a palace of sweet sounds and sights ; he dilates ; he is twice a man ; he walks with arms akimbo ; he soliloquizes ; he accosts the grass and the trees ; he feels the blood of the violet ...
Page 195
... behold now the semblance of my being , in all its height , variety and curiosity , reiterated in a foreign form ; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature . - The other element of friendship is tenderness . We are ...
... behold now the semblance of my being , in all its height , variety and curiosity , reiterated in a foreign form ; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature . - The other element of friendship is tenderness . We are ...
Page 232
... behold before my Sophocles : Farewell ; now teach the Romans how to die . Mar. Dost know what ' t is to die ? Soph . Thou dost not , Martius , And , therefore , not what ' t is to live ; to die Is to begin to live . It is to end An old ...
... behold before my Sophocles : Farewell ; now teach the Romans how to die . Mar. Dost know what ' t is to die ? Soph . Thou dost not , Martius , And , therefore , not what ' t is to live ; to die Is to begin to live . It is to end An old ...
Page 268
... behold is only an aspiration or is our honest effort also . We are all discerners of spirits . That diagnosis lies aloft in our life or unconscious power . The in- tcrcourse of society , its trade , its religion , its friend- ships ...
... behold is only an aspiration or is our honest effort also . We are all discerners of spirits . That diagnosis lies aloft in our life or unconscious power . The in- tcrcourse of society , its trade , its religion , its friend- ships ...
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