Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1895 - 290 pages |
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... 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 . 1 HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to all individual.
... 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 . 1 HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to all individual.
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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 surrounding ourselves with the original circum- stances , we invent anew ...
... 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 surrounding ourselves with the original circum- stances , we invent anew ...
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... hand , is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil ; and which has its own perils of monot- ony and deterioration , if not stimulated by foreign infu- sions . Everything the individual sees without ...
... hand , is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil ; and which has its own perils of monot- ony and deterioration , if not stimulated by foreign infu- sions . Everything the individual sees without ...
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... hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper crea- tions of the imagination and not of the fancy , are uni- versal verities . What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Prometheus ! Be- side its ...
... hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper crea- tions of the imagination and not of the fancy , are uni- versal verities . What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Prometheus ! Be- side 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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