That he talks of things sometimes as if they were dead; Life, nature, love, God, and affairs of that sort, He looks at as merely ideas; in short, As if they were fossils stuck round in a cabinet, Of such vast extent that our earth 'sa mere dab in it;... In Memoriam. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Recollections of His Visits to England in ... - Page 77 by Alexander Ireland - 1882 - 120 pages Full view -
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