Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 11
... secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning ...
... secret experience , or we shall learn nothing rightly . What befell As- drubal or Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning ...
Page 14
... secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , be- trays itself in the use we make of the signal narra- tions of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of ...
... secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , be- trays itself in the use we make of the signal narra- tions of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of ...
Page 33
... secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligi- ble to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer ...
... secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligi- ble to him , dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer ...
Page 37
... secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction . The preternatural prowess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavor ...
... secret virtues of minerals , of understanding the voices of birds , are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction . The preternatural prowess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavor ...
Page 77
... secret of fortune is joy in our hands . Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self - helping man . For him all doors are flung wide ; him all tongues greet , all honors crown , all eyes follow with desire . Our love goes out to him ...
... secret of fortune is joy in our hands . Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self - helping man . For him all doors are flung wide ; him all tongues greet , all honors crown , all eyes follow with desire . Our love goes out to him ...
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