EssaysH.M. Caldwell, 1892 |
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Page 12
... like the spirit of a plant or an animal , it has an architecture of its own , and adorns nature with a new thing . The thought and the form are equal in the order of time , but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to 12 ESSAY I.
... like the spirit of a plant or an animal , it has an architecture of its own , and adorns nature with a new thing . The thought and the form are equal in the order of time , but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to 12 ESSAY I.
Page 23
... planting the poor fungus : so she shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless spores , any one of which , being preserved , transmits new billions of spores to - morrow or next day . The new agaric of this hour has a chance which ...
... planting the poor fungus : so she shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless spores , any one of which , being preserved , transmits new billions of spores to - morrow or next day . The new agaric of this hour has a chance which ...
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... Universe , his speech is thunder , his thought is law , and his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals . The poet knows that he speaks adequately , then , only when he speaks somewhat wildly , or , " 26 ESSAY I.
... Universe , his speech is thunder , his thought is law , and his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals . The poet knows that he speaks adequately , then , only when he speaks somewhat wildly , or , " 26 ESSAY I.
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... plants also are animals ; or affirms a man to be a heavenly tree , growing with his root , which is his head , upward ; and , as George Chapman , follow- ing him , writes , - " So in our tree of man , whose nervie root Springs in his ...
... plants also are animals ; or affirms a man to be a heavenly tree , growing with his root , which is his head , upward ; and , as George Chapman , follow- ing him , writes , - " So in our tree of man , whose nervie root Springs in his ...
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... planting , the western clearing , Oregon , and Texas , are yet unsung . Yet America is a poem in our eyes ; its ample geography dazzles the imagination , and it will not wait long for metres . If I have not found that excellent ...
... planting , the western clearing , Oregon , and Texas , are yet unsung . Yet America is a poem in our eyes ; its ample geography dazzles the imagination , and it will not wait long for metres . If I have not found that excellent ...
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