Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. I am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year . Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart and Shakspeare's strain . ESSAY I. History . THERE is one mind common to.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. I am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year . Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart and Shakspeare's strain . ESSAY I. History . THERE is one mind common to.
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... hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By simply throwing ourselves into new circum- stances we do continually ...
... hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By simply throwing ourselves into new circum- stances we do continually ...
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... hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the Imagination and not of the Fancy , are universal verities . What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Prometheus ! Beside its ...
... hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the Imagination and not of the Fancy , are universal verities . What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Prometheus ! Beside its ...
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... hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle ...
... hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle ...
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... hands , predominat- ing in all their being . And we are now men , and must accept in the highest mind the same tran scendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner , not cowards fleeing before a revolution , but re- deemers and ...
... hands , predominat- ing in all their being . And we are now men , and must accept in the highest mind the same tran scendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner , not cowards fleeing before a revolution , but re- deemers and ...
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