Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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Page 9
... mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep is the chain of affinity . A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely ...
... mind , and those to which he is averse , he will see how deep is the chain of affinity . A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely ...
Page 10
... mind ; the true ship is the shipbuilder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell pre - exist in the secreting organs of ...
... mind ; the true ship is the shipbuilder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell pre - exist in the secreting organs of ...
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... mind of the builder , and that his chisel , his saw , and plane still reproduced its ferns , its spikes of flowers , its locust , elm , oak , pine , fir , and spruce . The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone sub- dued by the ...
... mind of the builder , and that his chisel , his saw , and plane still reproduced its ferns , its spikes of flowers , its locust , elm , oak , pine , fir , and spruce . The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone sub- dued by the ...
Page 13
... mind , through the dissipation of power on a miscellany of objects . The home - keeping wit , on the other hand , is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil ; and which has its own perils of ...
... mind , through the dissipation of power on a miscellany of objects . The home - keeping wit , on the other hand , is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil ; and which has its own perils of ...
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... mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . are mine as much as theirs . They I have seen the first monks and anchorets without crossing seas or centuries . More than once some in- dividual has appeared to me with such negligence of ...
... mind . I cannot find any antiquity in them . are mine as much as theirs . They I have seen the first monks and anchorets without crossing seas or centuries . More than once some in- dividual has appeared to me with such negligence of ...
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