Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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Page 10
... true that in their grandest strokes , there we feel most at home . All that Shakespeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner , feels to be true of himself . We sympathize in the great moments of history , in ...
... true that in their grandest strokes , there we feel most at home . All that Shakespeare says of the king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner , feels to be true of himself . We sympathize in the great moments of history , in ...
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... true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship- builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the sufficent reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work , as every spine and tint in the sea - shell pre ...
... true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship- builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the sufficent reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work , as every spine and tint in the sea - shell pre ...
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... true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian im- itated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian Court in its magnificent era never gave over the ...
... true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian im- itated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian Court in its magnificent era never gave over the ...
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... true for one and true for all . own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , yet dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his His private adventures with every fable of Esop , of ...
... true for one and true for all . own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , yet dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his His private adventures with every fable of Esop , of ...
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... Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism . Not less true to all time are all the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . Every man is a divinity in disguise , a god 30 ESSAY !
... Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism . Not less true to all time are all the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . Every man is a divinity in disguise , a god 30 ESSAY !
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