Essays, First SeriesH. Altemus, 1939 - 332 pages |
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Page 26
... persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the re- flective habit has become the predominant ... person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the muse of Hel- las . A ...
... persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the re- flective habit has become the predominant ... person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the muse of Hel- las . A ...
Page 132
... persons . Take the book into your two hands , and read your eyes out ; you will never find what I find . If any ingenious reader would have a monopoly of the wisdom or delight he gets , he is as secure now the book is Englished , as if ...
... persons . Take the book into your two hands , and read your eyes out ; you will never find what I find . If any ingenious reader would have a monopoly of the wisdom or delight he gets , he is as secure now the book is Englished , as if ...
Page 159
... persons from his attention as cheap and unworthy , yet she indemnifies him by carrying out her own being into somewhat impersonal , large , mundane , so that the maiden stands to him for a representa- tive of all select things and ...
... persons from his attention as cheap and unworthy , yet she indemnifies him by carrying out her own being into somewhat impersonal , large , mundane , so that the maiden stands to him for a representa- tive of all select things and ...
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