Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 40
... come back to us with a certain alien- ated majesty . Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this . They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good - hu- mored inflexibility then most when the whole ...
... come back to us with a certain alien- ated majesty . Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this . They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good - hu- mored inflexibility then most when the whole ...
Page 44
... angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes , why should I not say to him , ' Go love thy infant ; love thy wood - chopper : be good - natured and modest 44 ESSAY II .
... angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes , why should I not say to him , ' Go love thy infant ; love thy wood - chopper : be good - natured and modest 44 ESSAY II .
Page 48
... come to wear one cut of face and figure , and ac- quire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression . There is a mortifying experience in particular , which does not fail to wreak itself also in the gener- al history ; I mean " the ...
... come to wear one cut of face and figure , and ac- quire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression . There is a mortifying experience in particular , which does not fail to wreak itself also in the gener- al history ; I mean " the ...
Page 50
... come , yield to them heart and life , though they should clothe God with shape and color . Leave your theory , as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot , and flee . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds , adored by ...
... come , yield to them heart and life , though they should clothe God with shape and color . Leave your theory , as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot , and flee . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds , adored by ...
Page 54
... come out and take possession . The picture waits for my verdict it is not to command me , but I am to settle its claims to praise . That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street , carried to the duke's house ...
... come out and take possession . The picture waits for my verdict it is not to command me , but I am to settle its claims to praise . That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street , carried to the duke's house ...
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