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... and treats to an even and unruffled spirit- sustained ; but he must not run against ual state of being which is compressed its intellectual prejudices . His ideas into a formula - and then he passes must be proper . must be proper .
... and treats to an even and unruffled spirit- sustained ; but he must not run against ual state of being which is compressed its intellectual prejudices . His ideas into a formula - and then he passes must be proper . must be proper .
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... paper . the old cosmogony of all its poetry , Besides the nine volumes of " Collected therefore of its value as a key to primiEssays , ” the more technical articles tive ideas , and converting it into spurifill four large volumes .
... paper . the old cosmogony of all its poetry , Besides the nine volumes of " Collected therefore of its value as a key to primiEssays , ” the more technical articles tive ideas , and converting it into spurifill four large volumes .
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prits in the quarrel , to find , once more , You will guess that all so - called that stealing the appointed clothing of works of art that tell anything except an idea is no small sin against human of the sheer ecstasy of the artist are ...
prits in the quarrel , to find , once more , You will guess that all so - called that stealing the appointed clothing of works of art that tell anything except an idea is no small sin against human of the sheer ecstasy of the artist are ...
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Whatever we may agree to call the expression of ideas and emotions , it 82 ought to be plain that this is but one of Of ... not derived The artist + his idea this expression from life ; whether there can be a single = a work of art .
Whatever we may agree to call the expression of ideas and emotions , it 82 ought to be plain that this is but one of Of ... not derived The artist + his idea this expression from life ; whether there can be a single = a work of art .
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If anything foul is chosen not only for his art , but for his ideas . for either the accusing or the mitigatIn this respect he will be in the same ing illumination of art , the artist must boat with other men .
If anything foul is chosen not only for his art , but for his ideas . for either the accusing or the mitigatIn this respect he will be in the same ing illumination of art , the artist must boat with other men .
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Page 338 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Page 437 - Hurrah ! hurrah for Sheridan ! Hurrah! hurrah for horse and man ! And when their statues are placed on high, Under the dome of the Union sky, The American soldier's Temple of Fame, — There with the glorious General's name, Be it said, in letters both bold and bright, " Here is the steed that saved the day By carrying Sheridan into the fight, From Winchester, twenty miles away!
Page 475 - Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Page 472 - tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.
Page 471 - But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!
Page 625 - We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
Page 471 - There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God. But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror.
Page 620 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 696 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 473 - Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself.
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| Title | The Century: A Popular Quarterly, Volume 110 |
| Editors | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder |
| Publisher | Century Company, 1925 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Sep 2006 |
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