Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 12
... pictures , in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius , anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true that in their grandest ...
... pictures , in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius , anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true that in their grandest ...
Page 13
... pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he moves , as by per- sonal allusions . A true aspirant ...
... pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he moves , as by per- sonal allusions . A true aspirant ...
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... picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sen- timent as some wild mountain walk , although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and out of the ...
... picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sen- timent as some wild mountain walk , although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and out of the ...
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... 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 , nothing that does not interest us ...
... 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 , nothing that does not interest us ...
Page 62
... and take possession . The picture waits for my verdict ; it is not to command me , but I am to settle its claims to praise . That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead - drunk in the street , carried to the 62 SELF - RELIANCE .
... and take possession . The picture waits for my verdict ; it is not to command me , but I am to settle its claims to praise . That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead - drunk in the street , carried to the 62 SELF - RELIANCE .
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