Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1892 - 322 pages |
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Page 18
... deep is the chain of affinity . A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely , -but , by watching for a time his motions and plays ...
... deep is the chain of affinity . A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely , -but , by watching for a time his motions and plays ...
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... deep and sublime . As the Persian im- itated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian Court in its magnificent era never gave over the Nomadism of its barbarous ...
... deep and sublime . As the Persian im- itated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian Court in its magnificent era never gave over the Nomadism of its barbarous ...
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... deep a prop- erty he hath in all literature , -in all fable as well as in all history . He finds that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confession true ...
... deep a prop- erty he hath in all literature , -in all fable as well as in all history . He finds that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confession true ...
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... deep presentiment of the powers of science . The shoes of swiftness , the sword of sharpness , the power of subduing the elements , of using the secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts ...
... deep presentiment of the powers of science . The shoes of swiftness , the sword of sharpness , the power of subduing the elements , of using the secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts ...
Page 52
... deep cause , -disguise no god , but are put on and off as the wind blows , and a newspaper directs . Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formidable than that of the senate and the college . It is easy enough for a firm man who ...
... deep cause , -disguise no god , but are put on and off as the wind blows , and a newspaper directs . Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formidable than that of the senate and the college . It is easy enough for a firm man who ...
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