Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . She hums the old well - known air through innumerable variations . I Nature is full of a sublime family likeness through- out her works ; and delights in startling us ...
... Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws . She hums the old well - known air through innumerable variations . I Nature is full of a sublime family likeness through- out her works ; and delights in startling us ...
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... nature , and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered into the inmost nature of a sheep . " I knew a draughtsman employed in a public survey , who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geologi- cal ...
... nature , and can then draw him at will in every attitude . So Roos " entered into the inmost nature of a sheep . " I knew a draughtsman employed in a public survey , who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geologi- cal ...
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... nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that , when art came to the as- sistance of nature , it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself . What would statues of the usual size , or neat ...
... nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that , when art came to the as- sistance of nature , it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself . What would statues of the usual size , or neat ...
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... nature , the perfection of the senses , of the spirit- ual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . HISTORY . 21.
... nature , the perfection of the senses , of the spirit- ual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . HISTORY . 21.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. ual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phoebus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. ual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phoebus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern ...
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