The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... genius , because , to speak truly , they are more himself than he is . They receive of the soul as he also receives , but they more . Nature enhances her beauty , to the of loving men , from their belief that the poet is beholding her ...
... genius , because , to speak truly , they are more himself than he is . They receive of the soul as he also receives , but they more . Nature enhances her beauty , to the of loving men , from their belief that the poet is beholding her ...
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... genius is the landscape - garden of a modern house , adorned with fountains and statues , with well - bred men and women stand- ing and sitting in the walks and terraces . We hear , through all the varied music , the ground- tone of ...
... genius is the landscape - garden of a modern house , adorned with fountains and statues , with well - bred men and women stand- ing and sitting in the walks and terraces . We hear , through all the varied music , the ground- tone of ...
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... genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table . He had left his work and gone rambling none knew whither , and had written hundreds of lines , but could not tell whether that which was in him was therein told ; he could tell ...
... genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table . He had left his work and gone rambling none knew whither , and had written hundreds of lines , but could not tell whether that which was in him was therein told ; he could tell ...
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... genius to us is in the veracity of its report . Talent may frolic and juggle ; genius realizes and adds . Mankind in good earnest have availed so far in under- standing themselves and their work , that the foremost watchman on the peak ...
... genius to us is in the veracity of its report . Talent may frolic and juggle ; genius realizes and adds . Mankind in good earnest have availed so far in under- standing themselves and their work , that the foremost watchman on the peak ...
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... genius . All form is an effect of character ; all condition , of the quality of the life ; all harmony , of health ; and for this rea- son a perception of beauty should be sympa- thetic , or proper only to the good . The beau- tiful ...
... genius . All form is an effect of character ; all condition , of the quality of the life ; all harmony , of health ; and for this rea- son a perception of beauty should be sympa- thetic , or proper only to the good . The beau- tiful ...
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