Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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Page 10
... pictures , -in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will , or of genius , anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters , but rather is it true that in their grandest ...
... pictures , -in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will , or of genius , anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters , but rather is it true that in their grandest ...
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... picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk , al- though the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and out of the ...
... picture or copy of verses , if it do not awaken the same train of images , will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk , al- though the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses , but is occult and out of the ...
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... pictures , are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art , and the history of literature , -all must be ex- plained from individual history , or must remain words . There is nothing but is related to us ...
... pictures , are wont to animate . Civil history , natural history , the history of art , and the history of literature , -all must be ex- plained from individual history , or must remain words . There is nothing but is related to us ...
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... picture Xenophon gives of himself and his com- patriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand . After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia , there fell much snow , and the troops lay miserably on the ground , covered with it ...
... picture Xenophon gives of himself and his com- patriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand . After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia , there fell much snow , and the troops lay miserably on the ground , covered with it ...
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... - tioners to his faculties that they will come out and take possession . The picture waits for my ver- dict ; it is not to command me , but I am to settle its claims to praise . That popular fable of the SELF - RELIANCE . 57.
... - tioners to his faculties that they will come out and take possession . The picture waits for my ver- dict ; it is not to command me , but I am to settle its claims to praise . That popular fable of the SELF - RELIANCE . 57.
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