The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... come again to the solid ground of historical evidence ; and even the poets are contented with a civil and conformed manner of living , and to write poems from the fancy , at a safe distance from their own experience . ' But the highest ...
... come again to the solid ground of historical evidence ; and even the poets are contented with a civil and conformed manner of living , and to write poems from the fancy , at a safe distance from their own experience . ' But the highest ...
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... come into possession of their own , or mutes , who cannot report the conversation they have had with nature . There is no man who does not anticipate a supersensual utility in the sun and stars , earth and water . These stand and wait ...
... come into possession of their own , or mutes , who cannot report the conversation they have had with nature . There is no man who does not anticipate a supersensual utility in the sun and stars , earth and water . These stand and wait ...
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... come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity . It does not need that a poem should be long . Every word was once a poem . Every new rela- tion is a new word . Also we use defects and de- formities to a sacred purpose , so expressing ...
... come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity . It does not need that a poem should be long . Every word was once a poem . Every new rela- tion is a new word . Also we use defects and de- formities to a sacred purpose , so expressing ...
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... comes one step nearer to it than any other . This expression or naming is not art , but a second nature , grown out of the first , as a leaf out of a tree . What we call nature is a certain self - regulated motion or change ; and nature ...
... comes one step nearer to it than any other . This expression or naming is not art , but a second nature , grown out of the first , as a leaf out of a tree . What we call nature is a certain self - regulated motion or change ; and nature ...
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... come to ripeness of thought , she detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs , a fearless , sleepless , deathless progeny , which is not exposed to the accidents of the weary kingdom of time ; a fear- less , vivacious offspring ...
... come to ripeness of thought , she detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs , a fearless , sleepless , deathless progeny , which is not exposed to the accidents of the weary kingdom of time ; a fear- less , vivacious offspring ...
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