The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Six Volumes, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 53
... Pindar , the trage- dies of Eschylus , the Doric temples , the Gothic cathedrals , the plays of Shakspeare , all and each were made not for sport but in grave earnest , in tears and smiles of suffering and loving men . ' Viewed from ...
... Pindar , the trage- dies of Eschylus , the Doric temples , the Gothic cathedrals , the plays of Shakspeare , all and each were made not for sport but in grave earnest , in tears and smiles of suffering and loving men . ' Viewed from ...
Page 195
... therefore an economy of time to read old and famed books . Nothing can be pre- served which is not good ; and I know before- hand that Pindar , Martial , Terence , Galen , Kepler , Galileo , Bacon , Erasmus , More , BOOKS 195.
... therefore an economy of time to read old and famed books . Nothing can be pre- served which is not good ; and I know before- hand that Pindar , Martial , Terence , Galen , Kepler , Galileo , Bacon , Erasmus , More , BOOKS 195.
Page 21
... Pindar , and Dante , yes , and the gray and timeworn sentences of Zoroaster , may all be parsed , though we do not parse them . The poet has a logic , though it be subtile . He observes higher laws than he trans- gresses . Poetry must ...
... Pindar , and Dante , yes , and the gray and timeworn sentences of Zoroaster , may all be parsed , though we do not parse them . The poet has a logic , though it be subtile . He observes higher laws than he trans- gresses . Poetry must ...
Page 40
... Pindar , Hafiz , Dante , speak so proudly of what seems to the clown a jingle . The writer , like the priest , must be exempted from secular labor . His work needs a frolic health ; he must be at the top of his condition , In that ...
... Pindar , Hafiz , Dante , speak so proudly of what seems to the clown a jingle . The writer , like the priest , must be exempted from secular labor . His work needs a frolic health ; he must be at the top of his condition , In that ...
Page 65
... Pindar , Æschylus , and the Greek Gnomic poets and the tragedians . Dante was faithful when not carried away by his fierce hatreds . But in so many alcoves of English poetry I can count only nine or ten authors who are still inspirers ...
... Pindar , Æschylus , and the Greek Gnomic poets and the tragedians . Dante was faithful when not carried away by his fierce hatreds . But in so many alcoves of English poetry I can count only nine or ten authors who are still inspirers ...
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Æschylus appears astronomy beauty Ben Jonson better called charm civil club Confucius conversation courage dæmons delight Demosthenes divine earth eloquence Emerson essay face fact feel force Gawain genius give Goethe Greece Hafiz hand hear heard heart heaven human imagination inspiration intel intellect Jotun journal king labor lecture live look Madame de Staël manners master Merlin mind moral nations Nature never Odoacer orator perception Persian persons Pindar Plato Plutarch poem poet poetry political RALPH WALDO EMERSON rhyme Saadi scholar sense sentence sentiment Shakspeare Simorg society Socrates song soul speak speech spirit talent things thou thought Timur tion true truth ture verse Viasa virtue voice whilst whole wise words write wrote young youth Zoroaster