The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... fire , all the rest remaining cold . Their know- ledge of the fine arts is some study of rules and particulars , or some limited judgment of color or form , which is exercised for amusement or for show . It is a proof of the shallowness ...
... fire , all the rest remaining cold . Their know- ledge of the fine arts is some study of rules and particulars , or some limited judgment of color or form , which is exercised for amusement or for show . It is a proof of the shallowness ...
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... fire and torch - bearers , but children of the fire , made of it , and only the same divinity transmuted and at two or three removes , when we know - least about it.3 And this hidden truth , that the fountains whence all this river of ...
... fire and torch - bearers , but children of the fire , made of it , and only the same divinity transmuted and at two or three removes , when we know - least about it.3 And this hidden truth , that the fountains whence all this river of ...
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... fires ; and behold ! all night , from every pore , these fine auroras have been streaming . Every one has some interest in the advent of the poet , and no one knows how much it may concern him . We know that the secret of the world is ...
... fires ; and behold ! all night , from every pore , these fine auroras have been streaming . Every one has some interest in the advent of the poet , and no one knows how much it may concern him . We know that the secret of the world is ...
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... they can , to add this extraor dinary power to their normal powers ; and t this end they prize conversation , music , pictures , sculpture , dancing , theatres , travelling , war , mobs , - fires , gaming , politics , or love , THE POET 27.
... they can , to add this extraor dinary power to their normal powers ; and t this end they prize conversation , music , pictures , sculpture , dancing , theatres , travelling , war , mobs , - fires , gaming , politics , or love , THE POET 27.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. - fires , gaming , politics , or love , or science , or animal intoxication , which are several coarser or finer quasi - mechanical substitutes for the true nectar , which is the ravishment of ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. - fires , gaming , politics , or love , or science , or animal intoxication , which are several coarser or finer quasi - mechanical substitutes for the true nectar , which is the ravishment of ...
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