EssaysH.M. Caldwell, 1892 |
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Page 15
... leaving these victims of vanity , let us , with new hope , observe how nature , by worthier im- pulses , has ensured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming , namely , by the beauty of things , which becomes a ...
... leaving these victims of vanity , let us , with new hope , observe how nature , by worthier im- pulses , has ensured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming , namely , by the beauty of things , which becomes a ...
Page 23
... leave another to baptize her , but baptizes herself ; and this through the meta- morphosis again . I remember that a certain poet described it to me thus : Genius is the activity which repairs the decays of things , whether wholly or ...
... leave another to baptize her , but baptizes herself ; and this through the meta- morphosis again . I remember that a certain poet described it to me thus : Genius is the activity which repairs the decays of things , whether wholly or ...
Page 38
... leave the world , and know the muse only . Thou shalt not know any longer the times , customs , graces , politics , or opinions of men , but shalt take all from the muse . For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funeral chimes ...
... leave the world , and know the muse only . Thou shalt not know any longer the times , customs , graces , politics , or opinions of men , but shalt take all from the muse . For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funeral chimes ...
Page 46
... leave me as it found me , -neither better nor worse . So is it with this calamity : it does not touch me : something ... leaves no scar . It was caducous . I grieve that grief can teach me nothing , nor carry me one step into real nature ...
... leave me as it found me , -neither better nor worse . So is it with this calamity : it does not touch me : something ... leaves no scar . It was caducous . I grieve that grief can teach me nothing , nor carry me one step into real nature ...
Page 49
... leave it without noticing the capital exception . For tem- perament is a power which no man willingly hears any one praise but himself . On the platform of physics , we cannot resist the contracting influ- ences of so - called science ...
... leave it without noticing the capital exception . For tem- perament is a power which no man willingly hears any one praise but himself . On the platform of physics , we cannot resist the contracting influ- ences of so - called science ...
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