Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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Page 29
... pass by , he tries and sentences them on their merits , in the swift summary way of boys , as good , bad , interesting , silly , eloquent , trouble- some . He cumbers himself never about consequences , about interest : he gives an ...
... pass by , he tries and sentences them on their merits , in the swift summary way of boys , as good , bad , interesting , silly , eloquent , trouble- some . He cumbers himself never about consequences , about interest : he gives an ...
Page 99
... passes through the body , and fails to admire strokes of character , and the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions , then , they pass to the true palace of Beauty , more and more inflame their love of it ...
... passes through the body , and fails to admire strokes of character , and the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions , then , they pass to the true palace of Beauty , more and more inflame their love of it ...
Page 144
... pass for what he is , and to speak from his character and not from his tongue ; and which ever- more tends and aims to pass into our thought and hand , and become wisdom , and virtue , and power , and beauty . We live in succession , in ...
... pass for what he is , and to speak from his character and not from his tongue ; and which ever- more tends and aims to pass into our thought and hand , and become wisdom , and virtue , and power , and beauty . We live in succession , in ...
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