Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 18
... Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The ada- and whilst I look at it its outline and texture mant streams into soft but precise form before it , 18 HISTORY .
... Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The ada- and whilst I look at it its outline and texture mant streams into soft but precise form before it , 18 HISTORY .
Page 21
... spirit and not the fact that is identical . By a deeper appre- hension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power It has been said that " common souls pay with of awakening other ...
... spirit and not the fact that is identical . By a deeper appre- hension , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the power It has been said that " common souls pay with of awakening other ...
Page 26
... itinerancy of the present day . The antagonism of the two tenden- cies is not less active in individuals , as the love of inate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits adventure or the love of repose happens to predom- 26 HISTORY .
... itinerancy of the present day . The antagonism of the two tenden- cies is not less active in individuals , as the love of inate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits adventure or the love of repose happens to predom- 26 HISTORY .
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. inate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication , lives in his wagon and roams through all latitudes as easily as a Calmuc . At sea , or in the forest , or in the snow , he ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. inate . A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication , lives in his wagon and roams through all latitudes as easily as a Calmuc . At sea , or in the forest , or in the snow , he ...
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... spirit- ual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phœbus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities ...
... spirit- ual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phœbus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities ...
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