Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 24
... feel time passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity of man , the identity of his thought . The Greek had , it seems , the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine ...
... feel time passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity of man , the identity of his thought . The Greek had , it seems , the same fellow - beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine ...
Page 28
... feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous . It would steal , if it could , the fire of the Creator , and live apart from him , and independent of him . The Pro- metheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism . Not less true to ...
... feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous . It would steal , if it could , the fire of the Creator , and live apart from him , and independent of him . The Pro- metheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism . Not less true to ...
Page 34
... feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to ... feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have described ...
... feeling a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to ... feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have described ...
Page 48
... feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spontaneously moved , but moved by a low usurp- ing wilfulness , grow tight about the outline of the face with the most disagreeable sensation . For ...
... feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spontaneously moved , but moved by a low usurp- ing wilfulness , grow tight about the outline of the face with the most disagreeable sensation . For ...
Page 54
... feels poor when he looks on these . To him a palace , a statue , or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air , much like a gay equipage , and seem to say like that , ' Who are you , Sir ? ' Yet they all are his , suitors for his ...
... feels poor when he looks on these . To him a palace , a statue , or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air , much like a gay equipage , and seem to say like that , ' Who are you , Sir ? ' Yet they all are his , suitors for his ...
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