The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Six Volumes, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 21
... effect of a framed or stone house is immense on the tranquillity , power and refinement of the builder . A man in a cave or in a camp , a nomad , will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves . But so simple a labor as ...
... effect of a framed or stone house is immense on the tranquillity , power and refinement of the builder . A man in a cave or in a camp , a nomad , will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves . But so simple a labor as ...
Page 45
... 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.
... 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 46
... effect of music belongs how much to the place , as the church , or the moonlight walk ; or to the company ; or , if on the stage , to what went before in the play , or to the expectation of what shall come after . " 2 In poetry , " It ...
... effect of music belongs how much to the place , as the church , or the moonlight walk ; or to the company ; or , if on the stage , to what went before in the play , or to the expectation of what shall come after . " 2 In poetry , " It ...
Page 47
... effect they produce on us . Our arts are happy hits . We are like the mu- sician on the lake , whose melody is sweeter than he knows , or like a traveller surprised by a moun- tain echo , whose trivial word returns to him in romantic ...
... effect they produce on us . Our arts are happy hits . We are like the mu- sician on the lake , whose melody is sweeter than he knows , or like a traveller surprised by a moun- tain echo , whose trivial word returns to him in romantic ...
Page 62
... on which men play , a popu- lar assembly is that which has the largest com- pass and variety , and out of which , by genius and study , the most wonderful effects can be drawn . An audience is not a simple addition of 62 ELOQUENCE.
... on which men play , a popu- lar assembly is that which has the largest com- pass and variety , and out of which , by genius and study , the most wonderful effects can be drawn . An audience is not a simple addition of 62 ELOQUENCE.
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