American Literature Survey, Volume 2Milton R. Stern, Seymour L. Gross Viking Press, 1962 - American literature |
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Page 290
... live . My life is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be ... live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the ...
... live . My life is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be ... live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the ...
Page 297
... live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on tiptoe to foresee the future . He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present , above ...
... live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on tiptoe to foresee the future . He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present , above ...
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... live amid surfaces , and the true art of life is to skate well on them . Under the oldest mouldiest conventions a man of native force pros- pers just as well as in the newest world , and that by skill of handling and treatment . He can ...
... live amid surfaces , and the true art of life is to skate well on them . Under the oldest mouldiest conventions a man of native force pros- pers just as well as in the newest world , and that by skill of handling and treatment . He can ...
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