The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 68
Page
... EXPERIENCE III . CHARACTER IV . MANNERS V. GIFTS PAGE I 43 87 117 157 VI . NATURE 167 VII . POLITICS 197 VIII . NOMINALIST AND REALIST 223 IX . NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS 249 NOTES 287 } 609791 I THE POET A MOODY child and wildly wise Pursued.
... EXPERIENCE III . CHARACTER IV . MANNERS V. GIFTS PAGE I 43 87 117 157 VI . NATURE 167 VII . POLITICS 197 VIII . NOMINALIST AND REALIST 223 IX . NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS 249 NOTES 287 } 609791 I THE POET A MOODY child and wildly wise Pursued.
Page 4
... 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 every sensuous fact ; 2 Orpheus , Empedocles ...
... 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 every sensuous fact ; 2 Orpheus , Empedocles ...
Page 6
... experience , the rays or appulses have sufficient force to arrive at the senses , but not enough to reach the quick and compel the re- production of themselves in speech . The poet is the person in whom these powers are in bal- ance ...
... experience , the rays or appulses have sufficient force to arrive at the senses , but not enough to reach the quick and compel the re- production of themselves in speech . The poet is the person in whom these powers are in bal- ance ...
Page 10
... experience to unfold ; he will tell us how it was with him , and all men will be the richer in his fortune . For the experience of each new age requires a new confession , and the world seems always waiting for its poet . I remember ...
... experience to unfold ; he will tell us how it was with him , and all men will be the richer in his fortune . For the experience of each new age requires a new confession , and the world seems always waiting for its poet . I remember ...
Page 18
... experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought . Why covet a knowledge of new facts ? Day and night , house and garden , a few books , a few actions , serve us . as well as would all trades and all spectacles . We ...
... experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought . Why covet a knowledge of new facts ? Day and night , house and garden , a few books , a few actions , serve us . as well as would all trades and all spectacles . We ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action animal Antinomians appear beauty begin to hope believe Brook Farm Cæsar character church conversation Dæmon divine earth Emerson England essay Eumenides experience expression eyes fact faith fancy fashion feel flowers force Fruitlands genius gentleman gift give gods heart heaven Heracleitus hour individual intellect James Naylor John Sterling labor Lectures and Biographical live look Lord man's manners ment Midianites mind moral morning natura naturans nature never NOMINALIST numbers object party passage persons philosophy phrenology Plato Plotinus Plutarch Poems poet poetry politics poor present Proclus Pythagoras RALPH WALDO EMERSON reform religion rich secret seems sense sentiment society soul speak spirit stand stars symbol talent thee things thou thought tion truth universal virtue whilst whole wise wonder words write