The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 8
... true and only doctor ; he knows and tells ; he is the only teller of news , for he was present and privy to the appearance which he describes . He is a beholder of ideas and an utterer of the necessary and causal . For we do not speak ...
... true and only doctor ; he knows and tells ; he is the only teller of news , for he was present and privy to the appearance which he describes . He is a beholder of ideas and an utterer of the necessary and causal . For we do not speak ...
Page 9
... true poet . I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a re- cent writer of lyrics , a man of subtle mind , whose head appeared to be a music - box of delicate tunes and rhythms , and whose skill and com- mand of language we ...
... true poet . I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a re- cent writer of lyrics , a man of subtle mind , whose head appeared to be a music - box of delicate tunes and rhythms , and whose skill and com- mand of language we ...
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... true science . The poet alone knows astronomy , chemistry , vegetation and animation , for he does not stop at these facts , but employs them as signs . He knows why the plain or meadow of space was strown with these flowers we call ...
... true science . The poet alone knows astronomy , chemistry , vegetation and animation , for he does not stop at these facts , but employs them as signs . He knows why the plain or meadow of space was strown with these flowers we call ...
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... true naming , on the poet's part , is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms , and accompanying that . It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns , that beyond the energy of his possessed ...
... true naming , on the poet's part , is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms , and accompanying that . It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns , that beyond the energy of his possessed ...
Page 28
... true nectar , which is the ravishment of the intellect by coming nearer to the fact . These are aux- iliaries to the centrifugal tendency of a man , to his passage out into free space , and they help him to escape the custody of that ...
... true nectar , which is the ravishment of the intellect by coming nearer to the fact . These are aux- iliaries to the centrifugal tendency of a man , to his passage out into free space , and they help him to escape the custody of that ...
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