Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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... writes the character of the wise man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he ...
... writes the character of the wise man . Books , monuments , pictures , conversation , are portraits in which he finds the lineaments he is forming . The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him , and he is stimulated wherever he ...
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... writes out freely his humor , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author , for the ...
... writes out freely his humor , and gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author , for the ...
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... writes through his hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fic ...
... writes through his hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fic ...
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... write our annals , -from an ethical reformation , from an influx of the ever new , ever sanative conscience , if we would trulier express our central and wide- related nature , instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to ...
... write our annals , -from an ethical reformation , from an influx of the ever new , ever sanative conscience , if we would trulier express our central and wide- related nature , instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to ...
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... and whines . I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me . I would write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is ― somewhat better than whim at last , but we can- SELF - RELIANCE 51.
... and whines . I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me . I would write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is ― somewhat better than whim at last , but we can- SELF - RELIANCE 51.
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