The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 13
... faith in the possibility of any guide who can lead me thither where I would be . But , leaving these victims of vanity , let us , with new hope , observe how nature , by worthier impulses , has insured the poet's fidelity to his office ...
... faith in the possibility of any guide who can lead me thither where I would be . But , leaving these victims of vanity , let us , with new hope , observe how nature , by worthier impulses , has insured the poet's fidelity to his office ...
Page 25
... faith that the poems are a corrupt version of some text in nature with which they ought to be made to tally . A rhyme in one of our sonnets should not be less pleas- ing than the iterated nodes of a seashell , or the resembling ...
... faith that the poems are a corrupt version of some text in nature with which they ought to be made to tally . A rhyme in one of our sonnets should not be less pleas- ing than the iterated nodes of a seashell , or the resembling ...
Page 34
... faith ; and , he believes , should stand for the same realities to every reader . But the first reader prefers as naturally the symbol of a mother and child , or a gardener and his bulb , or a jeweller polishing a gem 34 THE POET.
... faith ; and , he believes , should stand for the same realities to every reader . But the first reader prefers as naturally the symbol of a mother and child , or a gardener and his bulb , or a jeweller polishing a gem 34 THE POET.
Page 78
... faith in our- selves that men never speak of crime as lightly as they think ; or every man thinks a latitude safe for himself which is nowise to be indulged to another . The act looks very differently on the inside and on the outside ...
... faith in our- selves that men never speak of crime as lightly as they think ; or every man thinks a latitude safe for himself which is nowise to be indulged to another . The act looks very differently on the inside and on the outside ...
Page 87
... faith was earlier up : Fixed on the enormous galaxy , Deeper and older seemed his eye : And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time . He spoke , and words more soft than rain Brought the Age of Gold again : His action won ...
... faith was earlier up : Fixed on the enormous galaxy , Deeper and older seemed his eye : And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time . He spoke , and words more soft than rain Brought the Age of Gold again : His action won ...
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