Modern Eloquence, Volume 8Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 421
... Nature solicits with all her placid , all her monitory pictures ; him the past instructs ; him the future invites . Is not indeed every man a stu- dent , and do not all things exist for the student's behoof ? And , finally , is not the ...
... Nature solicits with all her placid , all her monitory pictures ; him the past instructs ; him the future invites . Is not indeed every man a stu- dent , and do not all things exist for the student's behoof ? And , finally , is not the ...
Page 422
... nature , by insight . Thus to him , to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day , is suggested that he and it ... nature is the opposite of the soul , answering to it part for part . One is seal and one is print . Its beauty is the ...
... nature , by insight . Thus to him , to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day , is suggested that he and it ... nature is the opposite of the soul , answering to it part for part . One is seal and one is print . Its beauty is the ...
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... nature and the affections of the soul . He pierced the emblematic or spiritual character of the visible , audible , tangible world . Especially did his shade - loving muse hover over and interpret the lower parts of nature ; he showed ...
... nature and the affections of the soul . He pierced the emblematic or spiritual character of the visible , audible , tangible world . Especially did his shade - loving muse hover over and interpret the lower parts of nature ; he showed ...
Contents
VOLUME VIII | 399 |
ELIOT CHARLES WILLIAM | 413 |
EMERSON RALPH WALDO | 419 |
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