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Page 28
... passions undergone or vanquished . The depth , for there was depth , was of feeling rather than experience . A penetrating sweetness beamed from him on the observer , who was rather raised and softened in himself than drawn to think of ...
... passions undergone or vanquished . The depth , for there was depth , was of feeling rather than experience . A penetrating sweetness beamed from him on the observer , who was rather raised and softened in himself than drawn to think of ...
Page 35
... passions , detain me longer than would the still path through the groves , the chosen haunt of contemplation , yet I in- cline to think that progress so , though slower , is surer . Owing no safety , no clearness to my position , but so ...
... passions , detain me longer than would the still path through the groves , the chosen haunt of contemplation , yet I in- cline to think that progress so , though slower , is surer . Owing no safety , no clearness to my position , but so ...
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... passion for acquisition preceded long and far outwent , in the first part of his prime , the need of creation or expression , and , probably , no era less grand and fervent than his own could have made him still more the genius than THE ...
... passion for acquisition preceded long and far outwent , in the first part of his prime , the need of creation or expression , and , probably , no era less grand and fervent than his own could have made him still more the genius than THE ...
Page 48
... passion , in great results and still greater beginnings . There was fire enough to bring the immense materials he had collected into a state of fusion . Still his original bias infects the pupil , and this Master nakes us thirst for ...
... passion , in great results and still greater beginnings . There was fire enough to bring the immense materials he had collected into a state of fusion . Still his original bias infects the pupil , and this Master nakes us thirst for ...
Page 50
... passions . " He does not mention here the higher offices of music , but that they had been fulfilled to him is evident in the whole texture of his mind and his page . The organ was his instrument , and there is not a strain of its ...
... passions . " He does not mention here the higher offices of music , but that they had been fulfilled to him is evident in the whole texture of his mind and his page . The organ was his instrument , and there is not a strain of its ...
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