Essays, Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1868 - 274 pages |
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... CONTENTS . THE POET , ESSAY I. ESSAY II . PAGE • 9 EXPERIENCE , 49 ESSAY III . CHARACTER , 91 MANNERS , • • GIFTS , NATURE , ESSAY IV . ESSAY V ESSAY VI . • 119 * • 155 165 POLITICS , • NOMINALIST AND REALIST , ESSAY VII . 1 *
... CONTENTS . THE POET , ESSAY I. ESSAY II . PAGE • 9 EXPERIENCE , 49 ESSAY III . CHARACTER , 91 MANNERS , • • GIFTS , NATURE , ESSAY IV . ESSAY V ESSAY VI . • 119 * • 155 165 POLITICS , • NOMINALIST AND REALIST , ESSAY VII . 1 *
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... and sea , and star . Saw the dance of nature forward far ; Through worlds , and races , and terms , and times , Saw musical order , and pairing rhymes . Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below , Which always THE POET,
... and sea , and star . Saw the dance of nature forward far ; Through worlds , and races , and terms , and times , Saw musical order , and pairing rhymes . Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below , Which always THE POET,
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... all this river of Time , and its creatures , floweth , are intrinsically ideal and beautiful , draws us to the consideration of the nature and functions of the Poet or the man of Beauty , to the means and materials he 10 ESSAY 1 .
... all this river of Time , and its creatures , floweth , are intrinsically ideal and beautiful , draws us to the consideration of the nature and functions of the Poet or the man of Beauty , to the means and materials he 10 ESSAY 1 .
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... Nature enhances her beauty , to the eye of loving men , from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time . He is isolated among his contemporaries , by truth and by his art , but with this consolation in his pur ...
... Nature enhances her beauty , to the eye of loving men , from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time . He is isolated among his contemporaries , by truth and by his art , but with this consolation in his pur ...
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... nature on us to make us artists . Every touch should thrill . Every man should be so much an artist , that he could report in conversa- tion what had befallen him . Yet , in our experi- ence , the rays or appulses have sufficient force ...
... nature on us to make us artists . Every touch should thrill . Every man should be so much an artist , that he could report in conversa- tion what had befallen him . Yet , in our experi- ence , the rays or appulses have sufficient force ...
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