Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 16
... imagination , but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Jove , a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows . The identity of history is equally intrinsic , the ...
... imagination , but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Jove , a beautiful woman with nothing of the metamorphosis left but the lunar horns as the splendid ornament of her brows . The identity of history is equally intrinsic , the ...
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... 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 primary value as the first chapter of the history of Europe ( the my- thology ...
... 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 primary value as the first chapter of the history of Europe ( the my- thology ...
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... imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet it is much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author , for the reason that it operates a wonderful relief to the mind from ...
... imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet it is much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author , for the reason that it operates a wonderful relief to the mind from ...
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... imagination ? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind . There they all stand and shed a united light on the advancing actor . He is attended as by a visible escort of angels to every man's eye . That is it which ...
... imagination ? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind . There they all stand and shed a united light on the advancing actor . He is attended as by a visible escort of angels to every man's eye . That is it which ...
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... imagination makes fools of us , plays us false . Kingdom and lordship , power and estate , are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house and common day's work : but the things of life are the same to both : the ...
... imagination makes fools of us , plays us false . Kingdom and lordship , power and estate , are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house and common day's work : but the things of life are the same to both : the ...
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