Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... Nature , which , operating in various ways , compensates the poor for their apparent privations , converts the abused luxuries of the rich into severe correctives , and thus pretty nearly equalizes , through the various classes of ...
... Nature , which , operating in various ways , compensates the poor for their apparent privations , converts the abused luxuries of the rich into severe correctives , and thus pretty nearly equalizes , through the various classes of ...
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... more enchanting than even the most picturesque reality . They are poetical exaggerations of beauty , the beau idéal of Nature . Then is it that a vivacious and creative faculty springs up within us , whose om- B 2 WINTER . 3.
... more enchanting than even the most picturesque reality . They are poetical exaggerations of beauty , the beau idéal of Nature . Then is it that a vivacious and creative faculty springs up within us , whose om- B 2 WINTER . 3.
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... nature of realities ; but whoever urged this objection against the imperishable visions of the brain ? You may as well talk of cutting a ghost's throat , as of cutting down any of the trees which I now see nodding in my ideal landscape ...
... nature of realities ; but whoever urged this objection against the imperishable visions of the brain ? You may as well talk of cutting a ghost's throat , as of cutting down any of the trees which I now see nodding in my ideal landscape ...
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... nature aërial and unem- bodied . With these impressions , I should think rather the better of my theory , if it were proved to be inconsistent with facts ; and should assert more strenuously than ever , that the moral is more solid than ...
... nature aërial and unem- bodied . With these impressions , I should think rather the better of my theory , if it were proved to be inconsistent with facts ; and should assert more strenuously than ever , that the moral is more solid than ...
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... nature ; and if I could be transported in propriâ personâ to the scene of my Italian landscape , I have little doubt that I should gaze around me with disappointment , and finally prefer the imaginary to the real scene . From the ...
... nature ; and if I could be transported in propriâ personâ to the scene of my Italian landscape , I have little doubt that I should gaze around me with disappointment , and finally prefer the imaginary to the real scene . From the ...
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