 gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer ; then in the Middle Age ; then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town...  Essays - Page 40by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 271 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1896 - 780 pages
...amid the roughened waters. " Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and the caucus," may, as Emerson says, " rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the Temple of Delphos," but, personally, I am more susceptible to Troy, or even to the Chateau d'lf, than I am to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...incomparable materials, and saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer; then...foundations of wonder as the town of Troy, and the temple of Delphos, and are as swiftly passing away. Our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1845 - 332 pages
...incomparable materials, and saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer; then...Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, methodism d unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the same foundations of wonder as the... | |
 | 1846 - 492 pages
...saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the time, another carnival of the same gods whose picture it so much admires in Homer; then in the middle age;...foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphos, and are as swiftly passing away. Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 288 pages
...incomparable materials, and saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer; then...foundations of wonder as the town of Troy, and the temple of Delphos, and are as swiftly passing away. Our logrolling, onr stumps and their politics, our fisheries,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 286 pages
...incomparable materials, and saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer ; then...foundations of wonder as the town of Troy, and the temple of Delphos, and are as swiftly passing away. Our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 284 pages
...incomparable materials, and saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer; then...and unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, THE POET. " 41 but rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy, and the temple of Delphos,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1863 - 288 pages
...incomparable materials, and saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer; then...foundations of wonder as the town of Troy, and the temple of Delphos, and are as swiftly passing away. Our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 274 pages
...incomparable materials, and saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer ; then...and unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, out rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy, and the temple of Delphos, and are... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 574 pages
...incomparable materials, and saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer; then...foundations of wonder as the town of Troy, and the temple of Delphos, and are as swiftly passing away. Art is the path of the creator to his work. The paths, or... | |
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