 For we do not speak now of men of poetical talents, or of industry and skill in metre, but of the true poet. I took part in a conversation the other day, concerning a recent writer of lyrics...  Essays - Page 14by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 402 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...man of subtle mind, whose head appeared to be a music-box of delicate tunes and rhythms, and whose skill, and command of language, we could not sufficiently...like a Chimborazo under the line, running up from the torrid base through all the climates of the globe, with belts of the herbage of every latitude... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...man of subtle mind, whose head appeared to be a music-box of delicate tunes and rhythms, and whose skill, and command of language, we could not sufficiently...like a Chimborazo under the line, running up from the torrid base through all the climates of the globe, with belts of the herbage of every latitude... | |
 | 1854 - 694 pages
...may refer, what follows will apply to his Eminence ; " But when the question arose, whether he were not only a lyrist, but a poet, we were obliged to...he is plainly a contemporary, not an eternal man." Yes ; that ie unmistakably true of NP Willis. Plainly а contemporary — a nineteenth-century being... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...man of subtle mind, whose head appeared to be a music box of delicate tunes and rhythms, and whose skill, and command of language we could not sufficiently...like a Chimborazo under the line, running up from the torrid base through all the climates of the globe, with belts of the herbage of every latitude... | |
 | 1853 - 538 pages
...may refer, what follows will apply to his Eminence : " But when the question arose, whether he were not only a lyrist, but a poet, we were obliged to...he is plainly a contemporary, not an eternal man." Yes ; that is unmistakably true of NP Willis. Plainly a contemporary — a nineteenth-century being... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 516 pages
...may refer, what follows will apply to his Eminence : " But when the question arose, whether he were not only a lyrist, but a poet, we were obliged to...he is plainly a contemporary, not an eternal man." Yes ; that is unmistakably true of NP Willis. Plainly a contemporary — a nineteenth-century being... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 518 pages
...thousand wittols to exclaim, A very American one indeed ! Emerson goes on to say of his lyrist, that he does not stand out of our low limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line, running up from the torrid base through all the climates of the globe, with belts of the herbage of every latitude... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 pages
...may refer, what follows will apply to his Eminence : " But when the question arose, whether he were not only a lyrist, but a poet, we were obliged to...he is plainly a contemporary, not an eternal man." Yes; that is unmistakably true of NP Willis. Plainly a contemporary — a nineteenth-century being... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...man of subtle mind, whose head appeared to be a music box of delicate tunes and rhythms, and whose skill and command of language we could not sufficiently...like a Chimborazo under the line, running up from the torrid base through all the climates of the globe, with belts of the herbage of every latitude... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...man of subtle mind, whoso head appeared to be a music-box of delicate tunes and rhythms, and whose skill and command of language we could not sufficiently...he is plainly a contemporary, not an eternal man. Ho does not stand out of our low limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line, running up from a torrid... | |
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