The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... object , far better than its old value ; as the carpenter's stretched cord , if you hold your ear close enough , is musical in the breeze . " Things more excellent than every image , " says Jamblichus , " are expressed through images ...
... object , far better than its old value ; as the carpenter's stretched cord , if you hold your ear close enough , is musical in the breeze . " Things more excellent than every image , " says Jamblichus , " are expressed through images ...
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... object . He perceives the independence of the thought on the symbol , the stability of the thought , the accidency and fugacity of the symbol . As the eyes of Lyncæus were said to see through the earth , so the poet turns the world to ...
... object . He perceives the independence of the thought on the symbol , the stability of the thought , the accidency and fugacity of the symbol . As the eyes of Lyncæus were said to see through the earth , so the poet turns the world to ...
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... is expressed , but alter idem , in a manner totally new . The expres- sion is organic , or the new type which things themselves take when liberated . As , in the I • sun , objects paint their images on the retina 24 THE POET.
... is expressed , but alter idem , in a manner totally new . The expres- sion is organic , or the new type which things themselves take when liberated . As , in the I • sun , objects paint their images on the retina 24 THE POET.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. • sun , objects paint their images on the retina of the eye , so they , sharing the aspiration of the whole universe , tend to paint a far more deli- cate copy of their essence in his mind . Like ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. • sun , objects paint their images on the retina of the eye , so they , sharing the aspiration of the whole universe , tend to paint a far more deli- cate copy of their essence in his mind . Like ...
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... objects of nature , the sun and moon , the animals , the water and stones , which should be their toys . So the poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him . His cheerfulness should ...
... objects of nature , the sun and moon , the animals , the water and stones , which should be their toys . So the poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him . His cheerfulness should ...
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