Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... - edly the archetype of that familiar ornament . I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once revealed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand 20 ESSAY I.
... - edly the archetype of that familiar ornament . I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once revealed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand 20 ESSAY I.
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the 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 ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the 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 ...
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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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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. Cast the bantling on the rocks , Suckle him with the she - wolf's teat : Wintered with the hawk and fox , Power and speed be hands and feet . SELF - RELIANCE . I READ the other day some.
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. Cast the bantling on the rocks , Suckle him with the she - wolf's teat : Wintered with the hawk and fox , Power and speed be hands and feet . SELF - RELIANCE . I READ the other day some.
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