Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 18
... fall , by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius detects through the fly , through the caterpillar , through the grub , through the egg , the constant ...
... fall , by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius detects through the fly , through the caterpillar , through the grub , through the egg , the constant ...
Page 36
... fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know their master , and the mean- est of them glorifies him . See in Goethe's Helena the same desire that every word should be a thing . These figures , he would say , these Chirons ...
... fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know their master , and the mean- est of them glorifies him . See in Goethe's Helena the same desire that every word should be a thing . These figures , he would say , these Chirons ...
Page 45
... falls early or too late . Our acts our angels are , or good or ill , Our fatal shadows that walk by us still . " Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune . Cast the bantling on the rocks , Suckle him with SELF-RELIANCE.
... falls early or too late . Our acts our angels are , or good or ill , Our fatal shadows that walk by us still . " Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune . Cast the bantling on the rocks , Suckle him with SELF-RELIANCE.
Page 48
... not with- out preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that particular ray . We but half express our selves , and are ashamed of that divine idea which 48 SELF - RELIANCE .
... not with- out preëstablished harmony . The eye was placed where one ray should fall , that it might testify of that particular ray . We but half express our selves , and are ashamed of that divine idea which 48 SELF - RELIANCE .
Page 66
... fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , one as much as an- other . All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , and in the universal miracle ...
... fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , one as much as an- other . All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause , and in the universal miracle ...
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