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99 Emerson : Essay on Civilization . Society and Solitude . Ambition scarce ever
produces any evil but when it reigns in cruei and savage bosoms . 100 Fielding :
Amelia . Bk . vi . Ch . 6 . Ambition has its disappointments to sour us , but never ...
99 Emerson : Essay on Civilization . Society and Solitude . Ambition scarce ever
produces any evil but when it reigns in cruei and savage bosoms . 100 Fielding :
Amelia . Bk . vi . Ch . 6 . Ambition has its disappointments to sour us , but never ...
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Essay xxiii . On Certain Principles of Art in Works of Imagination . Art is a spiritual
triumph . 198 William Ellery Channing : Note - Book . Art . Art is an absolute
mistress ; she will not be coquetted with or slighted ; she requires the most entire
self ...
Essay xxiii . On Certain Principles of Art in Works of Imagination . Art is a spiritual
triumph . 198 William Ellery Channing : Note - Book . Art . Art is an absolute
mistress ; she will not be coquetted with or slighted ; she requires the most entire
self ...
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208 Higginson : Atlantic Essays . A Plea for Culture . 1867 . Men of genius are
more apt to feel art than to understand it ; and they sometimes mistake that
emotion which a work of art calls forth for essential characteristics of the work
itself .
208 Higginson : Atlantic Essays . A Plea for Culture . 1867 . Men of genius are
more apt to feel art than to understand it ; and they sometimes mistake that
emotion which a work of art calls forth for essential characteristics of the work
itself .
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241 Schiller : Essays , Æsthetical and Philosophical . Tragic Art . ( Bohn ' s
Edition . ) Art is intended to make us contemplate the true and the infinite in forms
of sense . Yet even art does not fully satisfy the deepest need of the soul . The
soul ...
241 Schiller : Essays , Æsthetical and Philosophical . Tragic Art . ( Bohn ' s
Edition . ) Art is intended to make us contemplate the true and the infinite in forms
of sense . Yet even art does not fully satisfy the deepest need of the soul . The
soul ...
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The Outlook . There is no such a thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter . The
essence of an artist is that he should be articulate . 276 Swinburne : Essays and
Studies . Matthew Arnold ' s New Poems . This gift of love and faith , now rare ...
The Outlook . There is no such a thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter . The
essence of an artist is that he should be articulate . 276 Swinburne : Essays and
Studies . Matthew Arnold ' s New Poems . This gift of love and faith , now rare ...
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| Title | A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient Sources The Astor prose series |
| Editor | Anna Lydia Ward |
| Publisher | T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1889 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 701 pages |
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