The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Six Volumes, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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... our best sense of any work of art to the author . The highest praise we can attribute to any writer , painter , sculptor , builder , is , that he actually pos- sessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired 46 ART.
... our best sense of any work of art to the author . The highest praise we can attribute to any writer , painter , sculptor , builder , is , that he actually pos- sessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired 46 ART.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. sessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us . We hesitate at doing Spenser so great an honor as to think that he intended by his allegory the sense we affix to it . We grudge to Homer the wide human ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. sessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us . We hesitate at doing Spenser so great an honor as to think that he intended by his allegory the sense we affix to it . We grudge to Homer the wide human ...
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... inspires poetry . They become the organic culture of the time . College education is the reading of certain books which the com- mon sense of all scholars agrees will represent the science already accumulated . If you know that , for ...
... inspires poetry . They become the organic culture of the time . College education is the reading of certain books which the com- mon sense of all scholars agrees will represent the science already accumulated . If you know that , for ...
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... inspired among his contempo- raries . If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence , by Synesius , trans- lated into English by Thomas Taylor , he will find it one of ...
... inspired among his contempo- raries . If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence , by Synesius , trans- lated into English by Thomas Taylor , he will find it one of ...
Page 211
... a fine sen- tence from Theophrastus , or Seneca , or Boëthius , but no high method , no inspiring efflux . But one cannot afford to read for a few sentences ; they are good only as strings of suggestive words . BOOKS 211.
... a fine sen- tence from Theophrastus , or Seneca , or Boëthius , but no high method , no inspiring efflux . But one cannot afford to read for a few sentences ; they are good only as strings of suggestive words . BOOKS 211.
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