Mosses from an Old Manse, Volume 2Fields, Osgood, & Company, 1871 |
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Pagina 5
... heart of man . Art has become a second and stronger nature ; she is a stepmother , whose crafty tenderness has taught us to despise the bountiful and wholesome ministrations of our true parent . It is only through the medium of the ...
... heart of man . Art has become a second and stronger nature ; she is a stepmother , whose crafty tenderness has taught us to despise the bountiful and wholesome ministrations of our true parent . It is only through the medium of the ...
Pagina 6
... heart but with no knowledge of their predecessors nor of the diseased circumstances that had become ' encrusted around them . Such a pair would at once distinguish between art and nature . Their instincts and intuitions would ...
... heart but with no knowledge of their predecessors nor of the diseased circumstances that had become ' encrusted around them . Such a pair would at once distinguish between art and nature . Their instincts and intuitions would ...
Pagina 8
... heart . Nature finds nothing else to offer her . Adam , after staring up and down the street without detecting a single object that his comprehension can lay hold of finally turns his forehead to the sky . There , indeed , is something ...
... heart . Nature finds nothing else to offer her . Adam , after staring up and down the street without detecting a single object that his comprehension can lay hold of finally turns his forehead to the sky . There , indeed , is something ...
Pagina 12
... heart wast thou established , nor in the simpli- city of nature ; but by hard and wrinkled men , and upon the accumulated heap of earthly wrong . Thou art the very symbol of man's perverted state . On as fruitless an errand our ...
... heart wast thou established , nor in the simpli- city of nature ; but by hard and wrinkled men , and upon the accumulated heap of earthly wrong . Thou art the very symbol of man's perverted state . On as fruitless an errand our ...
Pagina 14
... " Eve , Eve ! " cries Adam , shuddering with a name- less horror . " What can this thing be ? " " I know not , " answers Eve ; " but , Adam , my heart is sick ! There seems to be no more sky 14 MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE .
... " Eve , Eve ! " cries Adam , shuddering with a name- less horror . " What can this thing be ? " " I know not , " answers Eve ; " but , Adam , my heart is sick ! There seems to be no more sky 14 MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE .
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