Essays, First SeriesH. Altemus, 1939 - 332 pages |
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... imagination , but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Jove , a beautiful woman , with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows . The identity of history is equally intrinsic ...
... imagination , but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Jove , a beautiful woman , with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows . The identity of history is equally intrinsic ...
Page 58
... imagination makes fools of us , plays us false . Kingdom and lordship , power and es- tate are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house and common day's work ; but the things of life are the same to both : the ...
... imagination makes fools of us , plays us false . Kingdom and lordship , power and es- tate are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house and common day's work ; but the things of life are the same to both : the ...
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... imagination of men , and its air the beloved element of all delicate spirits . That country is the fairest , which is inhabited by the noblest minds . The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles , Xenophon ...
... imagination of men , and its air the beloved element of all delicate spirits . That country is the fairest , which is inhabited by the noblest minds . The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles , Xenophon ...
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