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Page 124
... beauty which the monuments , thus placed , must have borrowed from the surrounding images of nature - from the trees , the wild flowers , from a stream running perhaps within sight or hearing , from the beaten road stretching its weary ...
... beauty which the monuments , thus placed , must have borrowed from the surrounding images of nature - from the trees , the wild flowers , from a stream running perhaps within sight or hearing , from the beaten road stretching its weary ...
Page 36
... beauty nat- urally inspires . She played the whole of the first day with a little girl , who by chance occupied the seat next her own in the coach . Either her love of children overcame her abstraction , or she had already laid down the ...
... beauty nat- urally inspires . She played the whole of the first day with a little girl , who by chance occupied the seat next her own in the coach . Either her love of children overcame her abstraction , or she had already laid down the ...
Page 82
... beauty . " Genius may see all this and rejoice ; but it will not exalt itself into wisdom , unless it see also the meadow in the hvid lines of winter , the ship under bare poles , and the flower when the beauty of the fashion of it ...
... beauty . " Genius may see all this and rejoice ; but it will not exalt itself into wisdom , unless it see also the meadow in the hvid lines of winter , the ship under bare poles , and the flower when the beauty of the fashion of it ...
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