Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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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 ...
Page 22
... deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated 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 imitated 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 ...
Page 29
... deep a prop- erty he hath in 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 for ...
... deep a prop- erty he hath in 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 for ...
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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 50
... 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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