Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 22
... human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phoebus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities , wherein the face is a confused blur of features , but composed of incorrupt ...
... human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phoebus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities , wherein the face is a confused blur of features , but composed of incorrupt ...
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... human . Every animal of the barn - yard , the field , and the for- est , of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or oth- er of ...
... human . Every animal of the barn - yard , the field , and the for- est , of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or oth- er of ...
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... human spirit " to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind . " In Perceforest and Amadis de Gaul , a garland and a rose bloom on the head of her who is faithful , and fade on the brow of the inconstant . In the story of the ...
... human spirit " to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind . " In Perceforest and Amadis de Gaul , a garland and a rose bloom on the head of her who is faithful , and fade on the brow of the inconstant . In the story of the ...
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... human heart go , as it were , highways to the heart of every object in nature , to reduce it under the dominion of man .. A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to ...
... human heart go , as it were , highways to the heart of every object in nature , to reduce it under the dominion of man .. A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to ...
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... human nature . A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse ; independent , irresponsible , look- ing out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by , he tries and sentences them on their merits , in the swift ...
... human nature . A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse ; independent , irresponsible , look- ing out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by , he tries and sentences them on their merits , in the swift ...
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