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" We are symbols and inhabit symbols; workmen, work, and tools, words and things, birth and death, all are emblems; but we sympathize with the symbols, and being infatuated with the economical uses of things, we do not know that they are thoughts. The poet,... "
Essays - Page 25
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 402 pages
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Essays: Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...infatuated with the economical uses of things, we do not know that they are thoughts. The poet, by an ulterior intellectual perception, gives them a power...accidency and fugacity of the symbol. As the eyes of Lyncseus were said to see through the earth, so the poet turns the world to glass, and shows us all...
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The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, Volume 4

Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - 1847 - 444 pages
...By an ulterior,'intellectual perception, " he gives to words a meaning which makes their inaccurate use forgotten, and puts eyes and a tongue into every dumb and inanimate sign." As we stated above, these qualities are all expressed in his poems. For beauty of imagery, correspondence...
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Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 1

Douglas Jerrold - 1845 - 604 pages
...should be long. Every word was once & poem. Every new relation is a new word." " As the eyes of Lynceeus were said to see through the earth, so the poet turns the world to glass, and shows us ail things in their right series and procession." " The poet is the namer, or language-maker, naming...
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Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 1

Douglas Jerrold - 1845 - 658 pages
...should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word." " As the eyes of Lynceeus were said to see through the earth, so the poet turns the world to glass, and shows ut all things in their right series and procession." "The poet is the namer, or language-maker, naming...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 286 pages
...infatuated with the economical uses of things, we do not know that they are thoughts. The poet, by an ulterior intellectual perception, gives them a power...accidency and fugacity of the symbol. As the eyes of Lyncoeus were said to see through the earth, so the poet turns the world to glass, and shows us all...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 2d series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 380 pages
...infatuated with the economical uses of things, we do not know that they are thoughts. The poet, by an ulterior intellectual perception, gives them a power...Lyncaeus were said to see through the earth, so the poet turns^thejvorld to glass, and show^jjjs,all .things in their ngjitj^rieĀ§ jnd.processipn,. For through...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 386 pages
...infatuated with the economical uses of things, we do not know that they are thoughts. The poet, by an ulterior intellectual perception, gives them a power...He perceives the independence of the thought on the symboi, the stability of the thought, the accidency and fugacity of the symbol. As the eyes of Lyncaeus...
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Essays, Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 240 pages
...infatuated with the economical uses of things, we do not know that they are thoughts. The poet, by an ulterior intellectual perception, gives them a power...every dumb and inanimate object. He perceives the thought's independence of the symbol, the stability of the thought, the accidency and fugacity of the...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...infatuated with the economical uses of things, we do not know that they are thoughts. The poet, by an ulterior intellectual perception, gives them a power...every dumb and inanimate object. He perceives the thought's independence of the symbol, the stability of the thought, the accidency and fugacity of the...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 382 pages
...infatuated with the economical uses of things, we do not know that they are thoughts. The poet, by an ulterior intellectual perception, gives them a power which makes their old use V forgotten, and puts eyes and a tongue into every dumb and inanimate object. He perceives the independence...
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