EssaysJ. Munroe, 1841 - 303 pages |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. I am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's strain . ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. I am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's strain . ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to.
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... 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 tower . By simply throwing ourselves into new circum- stances we do continually ...
... 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 tower . By simply throwing ourselves into new circum- stances we do continually ...
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... hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the Imagination and not of the Fancy , are universal verities . What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Pro- metheus ! Beside its ...
... hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the Imagination and not of the Fancy , are universal verities . What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Pro- metheus ! Beside its ...
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... hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . ” All the fictions of the Middle ...
... hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . ” All the fictions of the Middle ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Cast the bantling on the rocks , Suckle him with the she - wolf's teat : Wintered with the hawk and fox , Power and speed be hands and feet . ESSAY II.37-49 , 57 , 37-49,57,58 SELF - RELIANCE .
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Cast the bantling on the rocks , Suckle him with the she - wolf's teat : Wintered with the hawk and fox , Power and speed be hands and feet . ESSAY II.37-49 , 57 , 37-49,57,58 SELF - RELIANCE .
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