Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals (1852)
Redfield, James W · New York, Redfield · leaf 95
ups and downs; and whatever it is in the mind thatcorresponds to the horns on the head of a deer, is like twotrees, barren in win-ter, but covered withfoliage and flowers insummer. In the mind,summer should be per-petual : the trees andshrubs should be ever-greens, like moss, andthe flowers… … THE DEER. 93 deer very strongly. That spontaneous effusion, John Gil-pin, is the deer that, in his feeling of abandonment, he restedback upon — the deer that ran away with him. Away went hat and wig — and away went the heavy deers-horns — the barren, leafless,winter trees—from the mind, and…
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