Five Essays on Man and NatureAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1954 - 120 pages |
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Page 43
... dream too wild . Yet when this spiritual light shall have revealed the law of more tearthly natures , —when he has learned to worship the soul , and to see that the natural philosophy that now is , is only the first gropings of its ...
... dream too wild . Yet when this spiritual light shall have revealed the law of more tearthly natures , —when he has learned to worship the soul , and to see that the natural philosophy that now is , is only the first gropings of its ...
Page 73
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Surface and Dream , Succession swift , and spectral Wrong , Temperament without a tongue , And the inventor of the game Omnipresent without name ; — Some to see , some to be guessed , They marched from east to west ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Surface and Dream , Succession swift , and spectral Wrong , Temperament without a tongue , And the inventor of the game Omnipresent without name ; — Some to see , some to be guessed , They marched from east to west ...
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... Dream delivers us to dream , and there is no end to illusion . Life is a train of moods like a string of beads , and as we pass through them they prove to be many - colored lenses which paint the world their own hue , and each shows ...
... Dream delivers us to dream , and there is no end to illusion . Life is a train of moods like a string of beads , and as we pass through them they prove to be many - colored lenses which paint the world their own hue , and each shows ...
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