Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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Page 54
... Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the Imagination and not of the Fancy 54 HISTORY .
... Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper creations of the Imagination and not of the Fancy 54 HISTORY .
Page 57
... hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild ro- mance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves under- stand . " All the fictions of the ...
... hand ; so that when he seems to vent a mere caprice and wild ro- mance , the issue is an exact allegory . Hence Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves under- stand . " All the fictions of the ...
Page 63
... hands and feet . I READ the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional . Always the soul hears an admonition in such lines , let the subject be what it may . The sentiment they instil is ...
... hands and feet . I READ the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional . Always the soul hears an admonition in such lines , let the subject be what it may . The sentiment they instil is ...
Page 65
... hands , predominating in all their being . And we are now men , and must accept in the highest mind the same tran- scendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner , not cowards fleeing before a revolution , but redeemers and benefactors ...
... hands , predominating in all their being . And we are now men , and must accept in the highest mind the same tran- scendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner , not cowards fleeing before a revolution , but redeemers and benefactors ...
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... hand- somer than the affectation of love . Your good- ness must have some edge to it , -else it is none . The doctrine of hatred must be preached , as the counteraction of the doctrine of love , when that pules and whines . I shun ...
... hand- somer than the affectation of love . Your good- ness must have some edge to it , -else it is none . The doctrine of hatred must be preached , as the counteraction of the doctrine of love , when that pules and whines . I shun ...
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