Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 13
... writes the character of the wise man . Books , monuments , 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 ...
... writes the character of the wise man . Books , monuments , 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 ...
Page 36
... writes out freely his humor , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author , for the ...
... writes out freely his humor , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author , for the ...
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... writes ' through his hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the ...
... writes ' through his hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the ...
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... write our annals , - from an ethical reformation , from an influx of the ever new , ever sanative conscience , if we would trulier express our central and wide - related nature , instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride ...
... write our annals , - from an ethical reformation , from an influx of the ever new , ever sanative conscience , if we would trulier express our central and wide - related nature , instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride ...
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... write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then again , do not tell me ...
... write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company . Then again , do not tell me ...
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