Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... Stand before each of its tablets and say , " Here is one of my coverings . Under this fantastic , or odious , or graceful mask , did my Proteus nature hide itself . " This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves ...
... Stand before each of its tablets and say , " Here is one of my coverings . Under this fantastic , or odious , or graceful mask , did my Proteus nature hide itself . " This remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves ...
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... standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have thus made a constel- lation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way ...
... standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have thus made a constel- lation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way ...
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... stand before every public , every private work ; before an ora tion of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon , be- fore a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More , of Sidney . of Marmaduke Robinson , before a French Reign of Terror , and a Salem ...
... stand before every public , every private work ; before an ora tion of Burke , before a victory of Napoleon , be- fore a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More , of Sidney . of Marmaduke Robinson , before a French Reign of Terror , and a Salem ...
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... stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father , and the race of mortals ; and readily suffers all things on their ac- count . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove ...
... stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father , and the race of mortals ; and readily suffers all things on their ac- count . But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity , and exhibits him as the defier of Jove ...
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... stand by itself . Do not think the youth has no force because he cannot speak to you and me . Hark ! in the next room , who spoke so clear and emphatic ? Good Heaven ! it is he ! it is that very lump of bashfulness and phlegm which for ...
... stand by itself . Do not think the youth has no force because he cannot speak to you and me . Hark ! in the next room , who spoke so clear and emphatic ? Good Heaven ! it is he ! it is that very lump of bashfulness and phlegm which for ...
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