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The Garden of Eden , the Sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to
all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have thus made a
constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and
New York ...
The Garden of Eden , the Sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to
all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have thus made a
constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and
New York ...
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... Vinctus is the romance of scepticism . Not less true to all time are all the details
of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . Every
man is a divinity in disguise , a god playing the fool . It seems as if heaven had ...
... Vinctus is the romance of scepticism . Not less true to all time are all the details
of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . Every
man is a divinity in disguise , a god playing the fool . It seems as if heaven had ...
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Every animal of the barn - yard , the field and the forest , of the earth and of the
waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and to leave the
print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright , heaven -
facing ...
Every animal of the barn - yard , the field and the forest , of the earth and of the
waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and to leave the
print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright , heaven -
facing ...
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He shall be the Priest of Pan , and bring with him into humble cottages the
blessing of the morning stars and all the recorded benefits of heaven and earth .
Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for
what ...
He shall be the Priest of Pan , and bring with him into humble cottages the
blessing of the morning stars and all the recorded benefits of heaven and earth .
Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for
what ...
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... if it will stand by itself . Do not think the youth has no force because he cannot
speak to you and me . Hark ! in the next room , who spoke so clear and emphatic
? Good Heaven ! it is he ! it is that very lump of bashfulness and phlegm which for
...
... if it will stand by itself . Do not think the youth has no force because he cannot
speak to you and me . Hark ! in the next room , who spoke so clear and emphatic
? Good Heaven ! it is he ! it is that very lump of bashfulness and phlegm which for
...
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Informações bibliográficas
| Título | Essays, Lectures and Orations |
| Autor | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editora | W. S. Orr & Company, 1848 |
| Original de | Oxford University |
| Digitalizado | 10 out. 2006 |
| Num. págs. | 364 páginas |
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