Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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Page 15
... fall by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius detects through the fly , through the caterpillar , through the grub , through the egg , the constant type ...
... fall by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius detects through the fly , through the caterpillar , through the grub , through the egg , the constant type ...
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... fall within the scope of every man's observation , of trivial facts which go to illustrate great and conspicuous facts . A lady , with whom I was riding in the forest , said to me , that the woods always seemed to her to wait , as if ...
... fall within the scope of every man's observation , of trivial facts which go to illustrate great and conspicuous facts . A lady , with whom I was riding in the forest , said to me , that the woods always seemed to her to wait , as if ...
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... falls into easy relations with his fellow - men . Every man , everything is a prize , a study , a property to him , and this love smooths his brow , joins him to men and makes him beautiful and beloved in their sight . His house is a ...
... falls into easy relations with his fellow - men . Every man , everything is a prize , a study , a property to him , and this love smooths his brow , joins him to men and makes him beautiful and beloved in their sight . His house is a ...
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... fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know their master , and the meanest of them glorifies him . See in Goethe ' Helena the same desire that every word should be a thing . These figures , he would say , these Chirons ...
... fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know their master , and the meanest of them glorifies him . See in Goethe ' Helena the same desire that every word should be a thing . These figures , he would say , these Chirons ...
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... falls early or too late . Our acts our angels are , or good or ill , Our fatal shadows that walk by us still . " Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune . Cast the bantling on the rocks , Suckle him with SELF-RELIANCE. ...
... falls early or too late . Our acts our angels are , or good or ill , Our fatal shadows that walk by us still . " Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune . Cast the bantling on the rocks , Suckle him with SELF-RELIANCE. ...
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