Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 10
... true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself . We sympathize in the great moments of history , in the great ...
... true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself . We sympathize in the great moments of history , in the great ...
Page 19
... true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship - builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work , as every spine and tint in the sea - shell pre - exist in ...
... true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship - builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work , as every spine and tint in the sea - shell pre - exist in ...
Page 22
... true , and Biography 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 ...
... true , and Biography 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 ...
Page 29
... true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonder- fully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer ...
... true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonder- fully intelligible to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer ...
Page 30
... true to all time are the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . Every man is a divinity in disguise , a god playing the fool . It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our ...
... true to all time are the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . Every man is a divinity in disguise , a god playing the fool . It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our ...
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