Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 170
... evanescent . Herein it resembles the most ex- cellent things , which all have this rainbow charac- ter , defying all attempts at appropriation and use . What else did Jean Paul Richter signify , when he said to music , “ Away ! away ...
... evanescent . Herein it resembles the most ex- cellent things , which all have this rainbow charac- ter , defying all attempts at appropriation and use . What else did Jean Paul Richter signify , when he said to music , “ Away ! away ...
Page 198
... evanescent relation , no more . A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence ; he can- not , for all that , say a word to his cousin or his un- cle . They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance ...
... evanescent relation , no more . A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence ; he can- not , for all that , say a word to his cousin or his un- cle . They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance ...
Page 205
... lustres , and I shall not be able any more than now to converse with you . So I will owe to my friends this evanescent inter- course . I will receive from them not what they have but what they are . They shall give me FRIENDSHIP . 205.
... lustres , and I shall not be able any more than now to converse with you . So I will owe to my friends this evanescent inter- course . I will receive from them not what they have but what they are . They shall give me FRIENDSHIP . 205.
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