Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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Page 91
... poet , the good player . Thus he signified his sense of a great fact . The poet uses the names of Cæsar , of Tamerlane , of Bonduca , of Belisarius ; the painter uses the conventional story of the Virgin Mary , of Paul , of Peter . He ...
... poet , the good player . Thus he signified his sense of a great fact . The poet uses the names of Cæsar , of Tamerlane , of Bonduca , of Belisarius ; the painter uses the conventional story of the Virgin Mary , of Paul , of Peter . He ...
Page 112
... poet if he spins his thread too fine , and does not substantiate his romance by the municipal virtues of justice , punctuality , fidelity and pity . I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly ...
... poet if he spins his thread too fine , and does not substantiate his romance by the municipal virtues of justice , punctuality , fidelity and pity . I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly ...
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... poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul , which , through their eyes beholdeth again , and blesseth the things which it hath made . The soul is superior to its knowledge ; wiser than any of its works . The great poet ...
... poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul , which , through their eyes beholdeth again , and blesseth the things which it hath made . The soul is superior to its knowledge ; wiser than any of its works . The great poet ...
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