Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 18
... things sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge , ere they fall , by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius detects through the fly , through the ...
... things sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge , ere they fall , by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature . Genius detects through the fly , through the ...
Page 19
... things ; at the centre there is sim- plicity of cause . How many are the acts of one man in which we recognize the same character ! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . We have the civil history of ...
... things ; at the centre there is sim- plicity of cause . How many are the acts of one man in which we recognize the same character ! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . We have the civil history of ...
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... things are in man . Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model . Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach . The true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the ...
... things are in man . Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model . Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach . The true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the ...
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... thing the individual sees without him cor- responds to his states of mind , and every thing is in turn intelligible to him , as his onward think- ing leads him into the truth to which that fact or series belongs . --- The primeval world ...
... thing the individual sees without him cor- responds to his states of mind , and every thing is in turn intelligible to him , as his onward think- ing leads him into the truth to which that fact or series belongs . --- The primeval world ...
Page 29
... acted with the sim- plicity and grace of children . They made vases , tragedies and statues , such as healthy senses should , - - that is , in good taste . Such things have con- tinued to be made in all ages , and are HISTORY . 29.
... acted with the sim- plicity and grace of children . They made vases , tragedies and statues , such as healthy senses should , - - that is , in good taste . Such things have con- tinued to be made in all ages , and are HISTORY . 29.
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