It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so intrusively upon me, to attempt to fling myself back into another age; or to insist on creating the semblance of a world out of airy matter, when, at every moment, the impalpable beauty... National Review - Стр. 4531860Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Martha Banta - 2007 - Страниц: 336
...materiality of this daily life pressing so intrusively upon me" by "flinging myself back into another age," the "wiser effort would have been, to diffuse thought...imagination through the opaque substance of to-day." He might have written about contemporary Salem, seeking out "the true and indestructible value that... | |
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