Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... painted over churches , -a round block in the centre which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth , supported on either side by wide stretched symmetrical wings . What appears once in the at- mosphere may appear often , and it was ...
... painted over churches , -a round block in the centre which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth , supported on either side by wide stretched symmetrical wings . What appears once in the at- mosphere may appear often , and it was ...
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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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... painted all over with won- derful events and experiences ; -his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be that variegated vest . I shall find in him the Fore- world ; in his childhood the Age of Gold ; the Apples of ...
... painted all over with won- derful events and experiences ; -his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be that variegated vest . I shall find in him the Fore- world ; in his childhood the Age of Gold ; the Apples of ...
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... paint , against the coward and the robber ; but we have been ourselves that cow- ard and robber , and shall be again , not in the low circumstance , but in comparison with the grandeurs possible to the soul . A little consideration of ...
... paint , against the coward and the robber ; but we have been ourselves that cow- ard and robber , and shall be again , not in the low circumstance , but in comparison with the grandeurs possible to the soul . A little consideration of ...
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... paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary . Like a tree in flower , so much soft , budding , informing loveliness is society for itself , and she teaches his eye why Beauty was ever painted with Loves and Graces attending her ...
... paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary . Like a tree in flower , so much soft , budding , informing loveliness is society for itself , and she teaches his eye why Beauty was ever painted with Loves and Graces attending her ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Essays: First Series Volume 2 of Emerson's complete works : Riverside edition |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | H. Altemus, 1899 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 6 Oct 2015 |
| Length | 322 pages |
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