Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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... form of a cherub as a round block in the painted over churches , — centre , which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth , supported on either side by wide- 1 stretched symmetrical wings . What appears once in the atmosphere 18 HISTORY.
... form of a cherub as a round block in the painted over churches , — centre , which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth , supported on either side by wide- 1 stretched symmetrical wings . What appears once in the atmosphere 18 HISTORY.
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... painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . ' By surrounding ourselves with the original ...
... painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove . I have seen a snow - drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower . ' By surrounding ourselves with the original ...
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... make me feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have de- scribed that goddess , in a robe painted all over - with wonderful events and experiences ; - his own 39 HISTORY.
... make me feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have de- scribed that goddess , in a robe painted all over - with wonderful events and experiences ; - his own 39 HISTORY.
Page 138
... paint , against the cow- ard 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 little consideration of ...
... paint , against the cow- ard 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 little consideration of ...
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... paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary . Like a tree in flower , so much soft , budding , 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 , budding , 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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