Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 26
... seems , the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and Eng- lish , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems superficial ...
... seems , the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and Eng- lish , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems superficial ...
Page 30
... seems the self - defense of man against this untruth , namely , a discontent with the believed fact that a God exists , and a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous . It would steal if it could the fire of the Creator , and ...
... seems the self - defense of man against this untruth , namely , a discontent with the believed fact that a God exists , and a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous . It would steal if it could the fire of the Creator , and ...
Page 32
... 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 Age explain themselves ...
... 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 Age explain themselves ...
Page 44
... seems he knows how to speak to his contempo- raries . Good Heaven ! it is he ! it is that very lump of bashfulness and phlegm which for weeks has done nothing but eat when you were by , that now rolls out these words like bell - strokes ...
... seems he knows how to speak to his contempo- raries . Good Heaven ! it is he ! it is that very lump of bashfulness and phlegm which for weeks has done nothing but eat when you were by , that now rolls out these words like bell - strokes ...
Page 46
... seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child , I will live then from the devil . " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature . Good and bad are but names very readily trans- ferable to that or this ; the only right is ...
... seem to me to be such ; but if I am the devil's child , I will live then from the devil . " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature . Good and bad are but names very readily trans- ferable to that or this ; the only right is ...
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