Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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... manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art , and the history of literature - all must be explained from individual ...
... manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art , and the history of literature - all must be explained from individual ...
Page 82
... manners ! to live with him were life indeed ; and no purchase is too great ; and heaven and earth are moved to that end . Well , Gertrude has Guy ; but what now avails how high , how aristocratic , how Roman his mien and manners , if ...
... manners ! to live with him were life indeed ; and no purchase is too great ; and heaven and earth are moved to that end . Well , Gertrude has Guy ; but what now avails how high , how aristocratic , how Roman his mien and manners , if ...
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... manner , we see literature best from the midst of wild nature , or from the din of affairs , or from a high religion . The field cannot be well seen from within the field . The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a ...
... manner , we see literature best from the midst of wild nature , or from the din of affairs , or from a high religion . The field cannot be well seen from within the field . The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a ...
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