The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... souls , and whether their own acts are like fair pictures , you learn that they are selfish and sen- sual . Their ... soul . There is no doctrine of forms in our philosophy . We were put into our bodies , as fire is put into a pan to ...
... souls , and whether their own acts are like fair pictures , you learn that they are selfish and sen- sual . Their ... soul . There is no doctrine of forms in our philosophy . We were put into our bodies , as fire is put into a pan to ...
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... 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 shows at the same time . He is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his art ...
... 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 shows at the same time . He is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his art ...
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... of health ; and for this rea- son a perception of beauty should be sympa- thetic , or proper only to the good . The beau- tiful rests on the foundations of the necessary . The soul makes the body , as the wise Spenser THE POET 13.
... of health ; and for this rea- son a perception of beauty should be sympa- thetic , or proper only to the good . The beau- tiful rests on the foundations of the necessary . The soul makes the body , as the wise Spenser THE POET 13.
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... soul , the body form doth take , For soul is form , and doth the body make . ” 1 Here we find ourselves suddenly not in a criti- cal speculation but in a holy place , and should go very warily and reverently . We stand before the secret ...
... soul , the body form doth take , For soul is form , and doth the body make . ” 1 Here we find ourselves suddenly not in a criti- cal speculation but in a holy place , and should go very warily and reverently . We stand before the secret ...
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... soul of man , to suffer there a change and reappear a new and higher fact . He uses forms according to the life , and not according to the form . This is true science . The poet alone knows astronomy , chemistry , vegetation and ...
... soul of man , to suffer there a change and reappear a new and higher fact . He uses forms according to the life , and not according to the form . This is true science . The poet alone knows astronomy , chemistry , vegetation and ...
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