The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... senses , but not enough to reach the quick and compel the re- production of themselves in speech . The poet is the person in whom these powers are in bal- ance , the man without impediment , who sees and handles that which others dream ...
... senses , but not enough to reach the quick and compel the re- production of themselves in speech . The poet is the person in whom these powers are in bal- ance , the man without impediment , who sees and handles that which others dream ...
Page 15
... sense ; to the poet , and to all others ; or , if you please , every man is so far a poet as to be susceptible of these enchantments of nature ; for all men have the thoughts whereof the universe is the celebration . I find that the fas ...
... sense ; to the poet , and to all others ; or , if you please , every man is so far a poet as to be susceptible of these enchantments of nature ; for all men have the thoughts whereof the universe is the celebration . I find that the fas ...
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... sense of nature ; and the distinctions which we make in events and in affairs , of low and high , honest and base , disap- pear when nature is used as a symbol . Thought makes everything fit for use . The vocabulary of an omniscient man ...
... sense of nature ; and the distinctions which we make in events and in affairs , of low and high , honest and base , disap- pear when nature is used as a symbol . Thought makes everything fit for use . The vocabulary of an omniscient man ...
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... sense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye . In the old mythology , mytho- logists observe , defects are ascribed to divine natures , as lameness to Vulcan , blindness to Cupid , and the like , to signify ...
... sense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye . In the old mythology , mytho- logists observe , defects are ascribed to divine natures , as lameness to Vulcan , blindness to Cupid , and the like , to signify ...
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... with fashion and covetousness , and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee , thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine woods . open If the imagination intoxicates the poet , it is THE POET ...
... with fashion and covetousness , and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee , thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine woods . open If the imagination intoxicates the poet , it is THE POET ...
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