Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1895 - 290 pages |
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... Phidias , or trowel of the Egyptians , or the pen of Moses , or Dante , but different from all these . Not possibly will the soul all rich , all eloquent , with thousand - cloven tongue , deign to repeat itself ; but if you can hear ...
... Phidias , or trowel of the Egyptians , or the pen of Moses , or Dante , but different from all these . Not possibly will the soul all rich , all eloquent , with thousand - cloven tongue , deign to repeat itself ; but if you can hear ...
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... Phidias it is not , but the work of man in that early Hellenic world , that I would know . The name and circumstance of Phidias , however convenient for history , embarrass when we 90 COMPENSATION .
... Phidias it is not , but the work of man in that early Hellenic world , that I would know . The name and circumstance of Phidias , however convenient for history , embarrass when we 90 COMPENSATION .
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... Phidias , of Dante , of Shakspeare , the organ whereby man at the moment wrought . Still more striking is the expression of this fact in the proverbs of all nations , which are always the literature of reason , or the statements of an ...
... Phidias , of Dante , of Shakspeare , the organ whereby man at the moment wrought . Still more striking is the expression of this fact in the proverbs of all nations , which are always the literature of reason , or the statements of an ...
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