Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... perfect in their senses and in their health , with the finest physical organ- ization in the world . Adults acted with the sim- plicity and grace of children . They made vases , tragedies and statues , such as healthy senses should ...
... perfect in their senses and in their health , with the finest physical organ- ization in the world . Adults acted with the sim- plicity and grace of children . They made vases , tragedies and statues , such as healthy senses should ...
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... perfect man Commands all light , all influence , all fate ; Nothing to him 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 ...
... perfect man Commands all light , all influence , all fate ; Nothing to him 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 ...
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... perfect sweetness the independence of solitude . - The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force . It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If you maintain a ...
... perfect sweetness the independence of solitude . - The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force . It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character . If you maintain a ...
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... perfect faith is due . He may err in the expression of them , but he knows that these things are so , like day and night , not to be disputed . My wilful actions and acquisitions are but roving ; the idlest reverie , the faintest native ...
... perfect faith is due . He may err in the expression of them , but he knows that these things are so , like day and night , not to be disputed . My wilful actions and acquisitions are but roving ; the idlest reverie , the faintest native ...
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... perfect in every moment of its existence . Before a leaf - bud has burst , its whole life acts ; in the full - blown flower there is no more ; in the leafless root there is no less . Its nature is satisfied and it satisfies nature in ...
... perfect in every moment of its existence . Before a leaf - bud has burst , its whole life acts ; in the full - blown flower there is no more ; in the leafless root there is no less . Its nature is satisfied and it satisfies nature in ...
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