Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 18
... child plays with graybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge , ere they fall , by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad ...
... child plays with graybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge , ere they fall , by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad ...
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... child by studying the outlines of its form merely , -but , by watching for a time his motions and plays , the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered into the inmost nature of a ...
... child by studying the outlines of its form merely , -but , by watching for a time his motions and plays , the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered into the inmost nature of a ...
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... Adults acted with the sim- plicity and grace of children . They made vases , tragedies and statues , such as healthy senses should , - - that is , in good taste . Such things have con- tinued to be made in all ages , and are HISTORY . 29.
... Adults acted with the sim- plicity and grace of children . They made vases , tragedies and statues , such as healthy senses should , - - that is , in good taste . Such things have con- tinued to be made in all ages , and are HISTORY . 29.
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... child ; besides that there are always individ- uals who retain these characteristics . A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas . I ad- mire the love of nature in the ...
... child ; besides that there are always individ- uals who retain these characteristics . A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek , and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas . I ad- mire the love of nature in the ...
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... child when he becomes a man , only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms of whose influence he was merely the or- gan to the youth . The fact teaches him how ...
... child when he becomes a man , only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms of whose influence he was merely the or- gan to the youth . The fact teaches him how ...
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