Essays, First SeriesH. Altemus, 1939 - 332 pages |
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Page 12
... already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the Sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have thus made a constel- lation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ...
... already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the Sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have thus made a constel- lation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ...
Page 69
... already . He has not one chance , but a hundred chances . Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man , and tell men they are not leaning willows , but can and must detach themselves ; that with the exercise of self - trust ...
... already . He has not one chance , but a hundred chances . Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man , and tell men they are not leaning willows , but can and must detach themselves ; that with the exercise of self - trust ...
Page 319
... already lost its relation to the morning , to the sun , and the earth , but that persuading voice is in tune with these . All works of art should not be detached , but extempore perform- ances . A great man is a new statue in every at ...
... already lost its relation to the morning , to the sun , and the earth , but that persuading voice is in tune with these . All works of art should not be detached , but extempore perform- ances . A great man is a new statue in every at ...
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