The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... poems from the fancy , at a safe distance from their own experience . ' But the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the double meaning , or shall I say the quadruple or the centuple or much more manifold meaning , of ...
... poems from the fancy , at a safe distance from their own experience . ' But the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the double meaning , or shall I say the quadruple or the centuple or much more manifold meaning , of ...
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... poem.2 The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully , and these transcripts , though imperfect , become the songs of the na- tions . For nature is as truly beautiful as it is good , or as it is reasonable , and ...
... poem.2 The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully , and these transcripts , though imperfect , become the songs of the na- tions . For nature is as truly beautiful as it is good , or as it is reasonable , and ...
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... the verses is primary . For it is not metres , but a metre - making argument that makes a poem , —a thought so Pope passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own THE POET 9.
... the verses is primary . For it is not metres , but a metre - making argument that makes a poem , —a thought so Pope passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own THE POET 9.
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... is the principal event in chrono- logy . ' Man , never so often deceived , still watches for the arrival of a brother who can hold him steady to a truth until he has made it his own . With what joy I begin to read a poem which THE POET II.
... is the principal event in chrono- logy . ' Man , never so often deceived , still watches for the arrival of a brother who can hold him steady to a truth until he has made it his own . With what joy I begin to read a poem which THE POET II.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. With what joy I begin to read a poem which I confide in as an inspiration ! And now my chains are to be broken ; I shall mount above these clouds and opaque airs in which I live , -opaque ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. With what joy I begin to read a poem which I confide in as an inspiration ! And now my chains are to be broken ; I shall mount above these clouds and opaque airs in which I live , -opaque ...
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