Essays: First series, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1888 - 343 pages |
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Page 15
... fable agreed upon ? " This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt , Greece , Gaul , England , War , Coloni- zation , Church , Court and Commerce , as with so many flowers and wild ornaments grave and gay . I will not make more account ...
... fable agreed upon ? " This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt , Greece , Gaul , England , War , Coloni- zation , Church , Court and Commerce , as with so many flowers and wild ornaments grave and gay . I will not make more account ...
Page 18
... fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The ada- mant streams into soft but precise form before it , and whilst I look at it its outline and texture 18 ...
... fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The ada- mant streams into soft but precise form before it , and whilst I look at it its outline and texture 18 ...
Page 33
... fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the imagination and not of the fancy , are ...
... fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the imagination and not of the fancy , are ...
Page 35
... fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half human . Every animal of the barn - yard , the field and the forest , of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and to leave the ...
... fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half human . Every animal of the barn - yard , the field and the forest , of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and to leave the ...
Page 62
... and take possession . The picture waits for my verdict ; it is not to command me , but I am to settle its claims to praise . That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead - drunk in the street , carried to the 62 SELF - RELIANCE .
... and take possession . The picture waits for my verdict ; it is not to command me , but I am to settle its claims to praise . That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead - drunk in the street , carried to the 62 SELF - RELIANCE .
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