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... idea of the taste of honey in his mind . So there is a dif- ference between believing that a person is beautiful , and hav- ing a sense of his beauty . The former may be obtained by hear- say , but the latter only by seeing the ...
... idea of the taste of honey in his mind . So there is a dif- ference between believing that a person is beautiful , and hav- ing a sense of his beauty . The former may be obtained by hear- say , but the latter only by seeing the ...
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... idea , is poetry ; music without the idea is simply music ; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness . What was meant by the invective against " him who had no music in his soul ? " * To sum up this long ...
... idea , is poetry ; music without the idea is simply music ; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness . What was meant by the invective against " him who had no music in his soul ? " * To sum up this long ...
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... idea , the gaudy fable fades and shrivels . We behold the real higher law . To the wise , there- fore , a fact is true poetry , and the most beautiful of fables . These wonders are brought to our own door . You also are a man . Man and ...
... idea , the gaudy fable fades and shrivels . We behold the real higher law . To the wise , there- fore , a fact is true poetry , and the most beautiful of fables . These wonders are brought to our own door . You also are a man . Man and ...
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The Literature of the Colonies and the Revolution | 3 |
WILLIAM BRADFORD 15901657 | 14 |
Of Plymouth Plantation Book II | 24 |
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