Essays: First seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 34
... true to all time are the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . come among men , they are not known . Jesus was not ; Socrates and Shakspeare were not . Antæus was suffocated by the gripe ...
... true to all time are the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . come among men , they are not known . Jesus was not ; Socrates and Shakspeare were not . Antæus was suffocated by the gripe ...
Page 36
... true to his better instincts or sentiments , and re- fuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know ...
... true to his better instincts or sentiments , and re- fuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race ; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places ; they know ...
Page 38
... true in Concord , however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne . Is it otherwise in the newest romance ? I read the Bride of Lammermoor . Sir William Ashton is a mask for a vulgar temptation , Ravenswood Castle a fine name for proud ...
... true in Concord , however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne . Is it otherwise in the newest romance ? I read the Bride of Lammermoor . Sir William Ashton is a mask for a vulgar temptation , Ravenswood Castle a fine name for proud ...
Page 47
... true for you in your private heart is true for all men , —that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost , and our first thought is ren- dered back to ...
... true for you in your private heart is true for all men , —that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost , and our first thought is ren- dered back to ...
Page 56
... true . Their two is not the real two , their four not the real four ; so that every word they say chagrins us and we know not where to begin to set them right . Meantime nature is not slow to equip us in the prison - uniform of the ...
... true . Their two is not the real two , their four not the real four ; so that every word they say chagrins us and we know not where to begin to set them right . Meantime nature is not slow to equip us in the prison - uniform of the ...
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