Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 8
... fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre , Palestine , and even early Rome , are pass- ing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thence- forward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was ...
... fact a fact . Babylon , Troy , Tyre , Palestine , and even early Rome , are pass- ing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thence- forward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was ...
Page 9
... facts of history in our private experience , and verifying them here . All history becomes subjec- tive ; in other words ... fact , see how it could and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke ...
... facts of history in our private experience , and verifying them here . All history becomes subjec- tive ; in other words ... fact , see how it could and must be . So stand before every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke ...
Page 15
... fact that is iden- tical . By a deeper apprehension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity . It has been said , that “ common souls ...
... fact that is iden- tical . By a deeper apprehension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity . It has been said , that “ common souls ...
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... facts are to be individ- ualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biogra- phy deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture ...
... facts are to be individ- ualized , all private facts are to be generalized . Then at once History becomes fluid and true , and Biogra- phy deep and sublime . As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture ...
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... fact or series be- longs . ― The primeval world , the Fore - World , as the Germans say , I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in catacombs , libraries , and the broken reliefs and torsos of ruined ...
... fact or series be- longs . ― The primeval world , the Fore - World , as the Germans say , I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in catacombs , libraries , and the broken reliefs and torsos of ruined ...
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