Essays, Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1868 - 274 pages |
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... intellect , which de- lights in detachment or boundary . The poets made all the words , and therefore language is the ar- chives of history , and , if we must say it , a sort of tomb of the muses . For , though the origin of most of our ...
... intellect , which de- lights in detachment or boundary . The poets made all the words , and therefore language is the ar- chives of history , and , if we must say it , a sort of tomb of the muses . For , though the origin of most of our ...
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... intellect , he is capable of a new en- ergy ( as of an intellect doubled on itself ) , by aban- donment to the nature of things ; that , beside his privacy of power as an individual man , there is a great public power , on which he can ...
... intellect , he is capable of a new en- ergy ( as of an intellect doubled on itself ) , by aban- donment to the nature of things ; that , beside his privacy of power as an individual man , there is a great public power , on which he can ...
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... intellect released from all service , and suffered to take its direction from its celestial life ; or , as the ancients were wont to express themselves , not with intellect alone , but with the intellect inebriated by nectar . As the ...
... intellect released from all service , and suffered to take its direction from its celestial life ; or , as the ancients were wont to express themselves , not with intellect alone , but with the intellect inebriated by nectar . As the ...
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... intellect by coming nearer to the fact . These are auxiliaries to the centrifugal tendency of a man , to his passage out into free space , and they help him to escape the custody of that body in which he is pent up , and of that jail ...
... intellect by coming nearer to the fact . These are auxiliaries to the centrifugal tendency of a man , to his passage out into free space , and they help him to escape the custody of that body in which he is pent up , and of that jail ...
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... intellect , when Chaucer , in his praise of Gentilesse , ' com- pares good blood in mean condition to fire , which , though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus , will yet hold its natu- ral office , and ...
... intellect , when Chaucer , in his praise of Gentilesse , ' com- pares good blood in mean condition to fire , which , though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus , will yet hold its natu- ral office , and ...
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