Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 16
... man . Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model . Strasburg Cathedral is a material counter- part of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach . The true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship ...
... man . Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model . Strasburg Cathedral is a material counter- part of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach . The true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship ...
Page 22
... man- ners of that period are plain and fierce . The rever- ence exhibited is for personal qualities , courage , ad- dress , self - command , justice , strength , swiftness , a loud voice , a broad chest . Luxury and elegance are not ...
... man- ners of that period are plain and fierce . The rever- ence exhibited is for personal qualities , courage , ad- dress , self - command , justice , strength , swiftness , a loud voice , a broad chest . Luxury and elegance are not ...
Page 28
... Man is the broken giant , and , in all his weakness , both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversa- tion with nature . The power of music , the power of poetry to unfix , and , as it were , clap wings to sol- id ...
... Man is the broken giant , and , in all his weakness , both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversa- tion with nature . The power of music , the power of poetry to unfix , and , as it were , clap wings to sol- id ...
Page 29
... man could not answer , she swallowed him alive . If he could solve the riddle , the Sphinx was slain . What is our ... man is truly man . But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the do- minion of facts ...
... man could not answer , she swallowed him alive . If he could solve the riddle , the Sphinx was slain . What is our ... man is truly man . But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the do- minion of facts ...
Page 32
... man .. A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to na- tures out of him , and predict the world he is to in- habit , as the fins of the fish foreshow that water ...
... man .. A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to na- tures out of him , and predict the world he is to in- habit , as the fins of the fish foreshow that water ...
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