Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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Page 11
... wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its whole virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit at home with might and main , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires ...
... wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its whole virtue to him . He should see that he can live all history in his own person . He must sit at home with might and main , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires ...
Page 25
... wonderful performances . Such are the Agamemnon and Diomed of Homer , and not far different is the picture Xenophon gives of himself and his com- patriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand . After the army had crossed the river ...
... wonderful performances . Such are the Agamemnon and Diomed of Homer , and not far different is the picture Xenophon gives of himself and his com- patriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand . After the army had crossed the river ...
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... 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 Homer HISTORY . 29.
... 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 Homer HISTORY . 29.
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... wonderful relief to the mind from the routine of customary images , -awakens the reader's inven- tion and fancy by the wild freedom of the design , and by the unceasing succession of brisk shocks of surprise . The universal nature , too ...
... wonderful relief to the mind from the routine of customary images , -awakens the reader's inven- tion and fancy by the wild freedom of the design , and by the unceasing succession of brisk shocks of surprise . The universal nature , too ...
Page 133
... wonderful talents , the most meritorious exertions really avail very little with us ; but nearness or likeness of nature -how beautiful is the ease of its victory ! Per- sons approach us famous for their beauty , for their ...
... wonderful talents , the most meritorious exertions really avail very little with us ; but nearness or likeness of nature -how beautiful is the ease of its victory ! Per- sons approach us famous for their beauty , for their ...
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