The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Six Volumes, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 45
... that the merely conventiona ' part of the performance contributes much to it effect ? One consideration more exhausts I believe al the deductions from the genius of the artist in any given work . This is the adventitious . Thus ART 45.
... that the merely conventiona ' part of the performance contributes much to it effect ? One consideration more exhausts I believe al the deductions from the genius of the artist in any given work . This is the adventitious . Thus ART 45.
Page 47
... believe everything , we think indebted to Goethe and to Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in his Hamlet and Antony . Especially have we this infirmity of faith in contemporary genius . We fear that Allston and Greenough did not ...
... believe everything , we think indebted to Goethe and to Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in his Hamlet and Antony . Especially have we this infirmity of faith in contemporary genius . We fear that Allston and Greenough did not ...
Page 73
... believe him . " Philip of Macedon said of Demosthenes , on hearing the report of one of his orations , " Had I been there , he would have persuaded me to take up arms against myself ; " and Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech on his ...
... believe him . " Philip of Macedon said of Demosthenes , on hearing the report of one of his orations , " Had I been there , he would have persuaded me to take up arms against myself ; " and Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech on his ...
Page 76
... believe that there may be a man who is a match for events , one who never found his match , against whom other men being dashed are broken , one of inexhaustible personal resources , who can give you any odds and beat you . What we ...
... believe that there may be a man who is a match for events , one who never found his match , against whom other men being dashed are broken , one of inexhaustible personal resources , who can give you any odds and beat you . What we ...
Page 94
... believe , a fact- speaker of any kind , they will long follow ; but a pause in the speaker's own character is very properly a loss of attraction . The preacher enumerates his classes of men and I do not find my place therein ; I suspect ...
... believe , a fact- speaker of any kind , they will long follow ; but a pause in the speaker's own character is very properly a loss of attraction . The preacher enumerates his classes of men and I do not find my place therein ; I suspect ...
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