Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 28
... live apart from him , and independent of him . The Pro- metheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism . Not less true to all time are the details of that stately ap- ologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . When the ...
... live apart from him , and independent of him . The Pro- metheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism . Not less true to all time are the details of that stately ap- ologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . When the ...
Page 32
... in the egg presup- pose air . He cannot live without a world . Napoleon in an island prison , let his faculties find no men to act on , no Alps to climb , no stake to Put play for , and he would beat the air and 32 ESSAY 1 .
... in the egg presup- pose air . He cannot live without a world . Napoleon in an island prison , let his faculties find no men to act on , no Alps to climb , no stake to Put play for , and he would beat the air and 32 ESSAY 1 .
Page 44
... live wholly from within ? my friend suggested , — “ But these impulses may be from below , not from above . " I replied , They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's child , I will live then from the Devil . " No law can ...
... live wholly from within ? my friend suggested , — “ But these impulses may be from below , not from above . " I replied , They do not seem to me to be such ; but if I am the Devil's child , I will live then from the Devil . " No law can ...
Page 46
... live . My life is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be genuine and equal , than that it should be glit- tering and unsteady . I wish it to be sound and sweet , and not to need ...
... live . My life is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be genuine and equal , than that it should be glit- tering and unsteady . I wish it to be sound and sweet , and not to need ...
Page 47
... live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independ- ence of solitude . — The objection to conforming to usages ...
... live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independ- ence of solitude . — The objection to conforming to usages ...
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