Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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Page 7
... 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 98
... 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 98 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
... 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 98 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
Page 155
... feel no hallowing presence ; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration , they have a light , and know not whence it comes and call it their own ; their talent is some exaggerated faculty , some overgrown member ...
... feel no hallowing presence ; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration , they have a light , and know not whence it comes and call it their own ; their talent is some exaggerated faculty , some overgrown member ...
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