Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 12
... poets , the romancers , do not in their state- liest 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 ...
... poets , the romancers , do not in their state- liest 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 ...
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... poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For the eye is fastened on the life , and slights the circum- VOL . II . 2 stance . Every chemical ...
... poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For the eye is fastened on the life , and slights the circum- VOL . II . 2 stance . Every chemical ...
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... poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The ada- mant streams into soft but precise form before it , and whilst I look at it its ...
... poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The ada- mant streams into soft but precise form before it , and whilst I look at it its ...
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... poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship - builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell preëxists in the secreting ...
... poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship - builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell preëxists in the secreting ...
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... poet was no odd fel- low who described strange and impossible situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confes- sion true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligi- ble to ...
... poet was no odd fel- low who described strange and impossible situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confes- sion true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligi- ble to ...
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