 ... dull grub. But suddenly, without observation, the selfsame thing unfurls beautiful wings, and is an angel of wisdom. So is there no fact, no event, in our private history, which shall not, sooner or later, lose its adhesive, inert form, and astonish...  The Harvard Classics - Página 141909Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
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...into thought, as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin. The manufacture goes forward at all hours. Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit action has the richest return of wisdom. I will not shut myself out of this globe of action, and transplant... | |
 | University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) - 1923 - 668 páginas
...mean occasions"18' which illustrate to the individual his theories of life and his visions of beauty: "the fear of boys, and dogs, and ferules, the love of little maids and berries,"190 "hearing an unwashed boy spell or cipher in his class, or seeing the blush upon the cheek... | |
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...or later, lose its adhesive, inert form, and astonish us by soaring from our body into the empyrean. Cradle and infancy, school and playground, the fear of boys, and dogs, and ferrules, the love of little maids and berries, and many another fact that once filled the whole sky,... | |
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