Orations, Lectures and EssaysCharles Griffin, 1866 - 290 páginas |
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... genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , -- the persons , the opinions , and the day , and Nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another aspect under which the beauty of the world may be ...
... genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , -- the persons , the opinions , and the day , and Nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another aspect under which the beauty of the world may be ...
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... genius since the world began ; from the era of the Egyptians and the Brahmins , to that of Pythagoras , of Plato , of Bacon , of Leibnitz , of Swedenborg . There sits the Sphinx at the road- side , and from age to age , as each prophet ...
... genius since the world began ; from the era of the Egyptians and the Brahmins , to that of Pythagoras , of Plato , of Bacon , of Leibnitz , of Swedenborg . There sits the Sphinx at the road- side , and from age to age , as each prophet ...
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... genius fear and hate ; -- Debt , which consumes so much time , which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base , is a preceptor whose lessons . cannot be foregone , and is needed most by those who suffer ...
... genius fear and hate ; -- Debt , which consumes so much time , which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base , is a preceptor whose lessons . cannot be foregone , and is needed most by those who suffer ...
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... genius . This is good , say they , let us hold by this . down . They look backward , and but genius always looks forward . man are set in his forehead , not in his hindhead . Man hopes . Genius creates . To create , -to create , is the ...
... genius . This is good , say they , let us hold by this . down . They look backward , and but genius always looks forward . man are set in his forehead , not in his hindhead . Man hopes . Genius creates . To create , -to create , is the ...
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... Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over - influence . The literature of every nation bear me witness . The English dramatic poets have Shakspearised now for two hundred years . Undoubtedly there is a right way of ...
... Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over - influence . The literature of every nation bear me witness . The English dramatic poets have Shakspearised now for two hundred years . Undoubtedly there is a right way of ...
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