The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 13
... wonder- ful value appears in the 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 ...
... wonder- ful value appears in the 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 ...
Page 15
... wonder then , if these waters be so deep , that we hover over them with a religious regard . The beauty of the fable proves the importance of the sense ; to the poet , and to all others ; or , if you please , every man is so far a poet ...
... wonder then , if these waters be so deep , that we hover over them with a religious regard . The beauty of the fable proves the importance of the sense ; to the poet , and to all others ; or , if you please , every man is so far a poet ...
Page 19
... wonder . It is not that he does not see all the fine houses and know that he never saw such before , but he disposes of them as easily as the poet finds place for the railway . The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and ...
... wonder . It is not that he does not see all the fine houses and know that he never saw such before , but he disposes of them as easily as the poet finds place for the railway . The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and ...
Page 23
... wonder at a blow , but she detaches from him a new self , that the kind may be safe from accidents to which the individual is exposed . So when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought , she detaches and sends away from it ...
... wonder at a blow , but she detaches from him a new self , that the kind may be safe from accidents to which the individual is exposed . So when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought , she detaches and sends away from it ...
Page 37
... wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi , and are as swiftly passing away . Our log - rolling , our stumps and their politics , our fisheries , our Negroes and In- dians , our boats and our repudiations , the wratk of rogues ...
... wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi , and are as swiftly passing away . Our log - rolling , our stumps and their politics , our fisheries , our Negroes and In- dians , our boats and our repudiations , the wratk of rogues ...
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