American Literature Survey: The American romantics, 1800-1860Milton R. Stern, Seymour L. Gross Viking Press, 1968 - Fiction |
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... thing is individual , stands by itself . By and by , it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature ; then three , then three thousand ; and so , tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct , it goes on tying things ...
... thing is individual , stands by itself . By and by , it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature ; then three , then three thousand ; and so , tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct , it goes on tying things ...
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... things of life are the same to both ; the sum total of both is the same . Why all this deference to Alfred and Scanderbeg and Gustavus ? Suppose they were virtu- ous ; did they wear out virtue ? As great a stake depends on your private ...
... things of life are the same to both ; the sum total of both is the same . Why all this deference to Alfred and Scanderbeg and Gustavus ? Suppose they were virtu- ous ; did they wear out virtue ? As great a stake depends on your private ...
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... thing , but all things ; should fill the world with his voice ; should scatter forth light , nature , time , souls , from the center of the present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple and receives ...
... thing , but all things ; should fill the world with his voice ; should scatter forth light , nature , time , souls , from the center of the present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple and receives ...
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