Essays, First SeriesH. Altemus, 1939 - 332 pages |
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... feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters , but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes , there we feel most at home . All that Shakespeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner , feels to ...
... feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters , but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes , there we feel most at home . All that Shakespeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner , feels to ...
Page 161
... feel his unworthiness ; when he cannot feel his right to it , though he were Cæsar ; he cannot feel more right to it , than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset . 99 Hence arose the saying , " If I love you , what is that to ...
... feel his unworthiness ; when he cannot feel his right to it , though he were Cæsar ; he cannot feel more right to it , than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset . 99 Hence arose the saying , " If I love you , what is that to ...
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... feel that a man's talents stand in the way of his advance- ment in truth . But genius is religious . It is a larger imbibing of the common heart . It is not anomalous , but more like , and not less like other men . There is in all great ...
... feel that a man's talents stand in the way of his advance- ment in truth . But genius is religious . It is a larger imbibing of the common heart . It is not anomalous , but more like , and not less like other men . There is in all great ...
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