The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 13
... 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 of announcement and affirming , namely by the beauty of things , which becomes a new ...
... 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 of announcement and affirming , namely by the beauty of things , which becomes a new ...
Page 22
... leave another to baptize her but baptizes her- self ; and this through the metamorphosis again . I remember that a certain poet described it to me thus : 2 Genius is the activity which repairs the decays of things , whether wholly or ...
... leave another to baptize her but baptizes her- self ; and this through the metamorphosis again . I remember that a certain poet described it to me thus : 2 Genius is the activity which repairs the decays of things , whether wholly or ...
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... leave the world , and know the muse only . Thou shalt not know any longer the times , customs , graces , politics , or opinions of men , but shalt take all from the muse . For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal ...
... leave the world , and know the muse only . Thou shalt not know any longer the times , customs , graces , politics , or opinions of men , but shalt take all from the muse . For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal ...
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... leave me as it found me , neither better nor worse . So is it with this calamity ; it does not touch me ; some ... leaves no scar . It was caducous . I grieve that grief can teach me nothing , nor carry me one step into real nature . The ...
... leave me as it found me , neither better nor worse . So is it with this calamity ; it does not touch me ; some ... leaves no scar . It was caducous . I grieve that grief can teach me nothing , nor carry me one step into real nature . The ...
Page 52
... leave it without noticing the capital exception . For temperament is a power which no man willingly hears any one praise but himself . On the plat- form of physics we cannot resist the contracting influences of so - called science ...
... leave it without noticing the capital exception . For temperament is a power which no man willingly hears any one praise but himself . On the plat- form of physics we cannot resist the contracting influences of so - called science ...
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