EssaysJ. Munroe, 1841 - 303 pages |
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... painted over churches , - a round block in the centre which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth , supported on either side by wide stretched symmetrical wings . What appears once in the atmosphere may appear often , and it was ...
... painted over churches , - a round block in the centre which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth , supported on either side by wide stretched symmetrical wings . What appears once in the atmosphere may appear often , and it was ...
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... painted all over with wonderful events and experiences ; — his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be that variegated vest . I shall find in him the Foreworld ; in his childhood the Age of Gold ; the Apples of ...
... painted all over with wonderful events and experiences ; — his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be that variegated vest . I shall find in him the Foreworld ; in his childhood the Age of Gold ; the Apples of ...
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... paint- ing of fable , of history , of law , of proverbs , of con- versation . It finds a tongue in literature unawares , Thus the Greeks called Jupiter , Supreme Mind ; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions , * St ...
... paint- ing of fable , of history , of law , of proverbs , of con- versation . It finds a tongue in literature unawares , Thus the Greeks called Jupiter , Supreme Mind ; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions , * St ...
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... paint , against the coward and the robber ; but we have been ourselves that coward and robber , and shall be again , not in the low circumstance , but in comparison with the grandeurs possible to the soul . A little consideration of ...
... paint , against the coward and the robber ; but we have been ourselves that coward and robber , and shall be again , not in the low circumstance , but in comparison with the grandeurs possible to the soul . A little consideration of ...
Page 146
... which pleases everybody with it and with themselves . Won- derful is its charm . It seems sufficient to itself . The lover cannot paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary . Like a tree in flower , so much 146 : ESSAY V.
... which pleases everybody with it and with themselves . Won- derful is its charm . It seems sufficient to itself . The lover cannot paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary . Like a tree in flower , so much 146 : ESSAY V.
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