Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volúmenes1-2D. Appleton and Company, 1896 |
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... produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could not recite Homer without almost falling into convulsions . * The Mohawk hardly feels the scalping ...
... produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could not recite Homer without almost falling into convulsions . * The Mohawk hardly feels the scalping ...
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... produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys , as by other ideas which are connected with them . He electrifies the mind through conductors . The most ...
... produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys , as by other ideas which are connected with them . He electrifies the mind through conductors . The most ...
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... produced , in a few centuries , the innumerable crowd of gods and goddesses . In like manner the ancient Per- sians thought it impious to exhibit the Creator under a Auman form . Yet even these transferred to the sun the worship which ...
... produced , in a few centuries , the innumerable crowd of gods and goddesses . In like manner the ancient Per- sians thought it impious to exhibit the Creator under a Auman form . Yet even these transferred to the sun the worship which ...
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... produced by pride struggling with misery . There is perhaps no work in the world so deeply and uniformly sorrowful . The melancholy of Dante was no fantastic caprice . It was not , as far as at this distance of time can be judged , the ...
... produced by pride struggling with misery . There is perhaps no work in the world so deeply and uniformly sorrowful . The melancholy of Dante was no fantastic caprice . It was not , as far as at this distance of time can be judged , the ...
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... produced . Talk to them of Naples , of Spain , or of South America . They stand forth , zealots for the doctrine of Divine Right , which has now come back to us , like a thief from transportation , under the alias of Legiti- macy . But ...
... produced . Talk to them of Naples , of Spain , or of South America . They stand forth , zealots for the doctrine of Divine Right , which has now come back to us , like a thief from transportation , under the alias of Legiti- macy . But ...
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