Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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... painted over churches , a round block in the centre , which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth , supported on either side by wide - stretched symmetrical wings . What appears once in the at- mosphere may appear often , and it ...
... painted over churches , a round block in the centre , which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth , supported on either side by wide - stretched symmetrical wings . What appears once in the at- mosphere may appear often , and it ...
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... painted all over with wonderful events and experiences ; his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be that variegated vest . I shall find in him the Foreworld ; in his childhood the Age of Gold , the Apples of ...
... painted all over with wonderful events and experiences ; his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be that variegated vest . I shall find in him the Foreworld ; in his childhood the Age of Gold , the Apples of ...
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... you say of the seraphim , and of the tin - peddler . There is no per- manent wise man except in the figment of the Stoics . We side with the hero , as we read or paint , against the coward and the robber ; but SPIRITUAL LAWS . 131.
... you say of the seraphim , and of the tin - peddler . There is no per- manent wise man except in the figment of the Stoics . We side with the hero , as we read or paint , against the coward and the robber ; but SPIRITUAL LAWS . 131.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. paint , against the coward and the robber ; but we have been ourselves that coward and robber , and shall be again , not in the low circumstance , but in comparison with the grandeurs possible to the soul . ―― A ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. paint , against the coward and the robber ; but we have been ourselves that coward and robber , and shall be again , not in the low circumstance , but in comparison with the grandeurs possible to the soul . ―― A ...
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... paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary . Like a tree in flower , so much soft , bud- ding , informing loveliness is society for itself ; and she teaches his eye why Beauty was pictured with Loves and Graces attending her steps ...
... paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary . Like a tree in flower , so much soft , bud- ding , informing loveliness is society for itself ; and she teaches his eye why Beauty was pictured with Loves and Graces attending her steps ...
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