The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1876 |
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Page 13
... faith in the possibility of any guide who can lead me thither where I would be . But , leaving these victims of vanity , let us , with new hope , observe how nature , by worthier impulses , has insured the poet's fidelity to his office ...
... faith in the possibility of any guide who can lead me thither where I would be . But , leaving these victims of vanity , let us , with new hope , observe how nature , by worthier impulses , has insured the poet's fidelity to his office ...
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... faith that the poems are a corrupt version of some text in nature with which they ought to be made to tally . A rhyme in one of our sonnets should not be less pleas- ing than the iterated nodes of a seashell , or the resembling ...
... faith that the poems are a corrupt version of some text in nature with which they ought to be made to tally . A rhyme in one of our sonnets should not be less pleas- ing than the iterated nodes of a seashell , or the resembling ...
Page 34
... faith ; and , he believes , should stand for the same realities to every reader . But the first reader prefers as naturally the symbol of a mother and child , or a gardener and his bulb , or a jeweller polishing a gem 34 THE POET.
... faith ; and , he believes , should stand for the same realities to every reader . But the first reader prefers as naturally the symbol of a mother and child , or a gardener and his bulb , or a jeweller polishing a gem 34 THE POET.
Page 78
... faith in our- selves that men never speak of crime as lightly as they think ; or every man thinks a latitude safe for himself which is nowise to be indulged to another . The act looks very differently on the inside and on the outside ...
... faith in our- selves that men never speak of crime as lightly as they think ; or every man thinks a latitude safe for himself which is nowise to be indulged to another . The act looks very differently on the inside and on the outside ...
Page 87
... faith was earlier up : Fixed on the enormous galaxy , Deeper and older seemed his eye : And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time . He spoke , and words more soft than rain Brought the Age of Gold again : His action won ...
... faith was earlier up : Fixed on the enormous galaxy , Deeper and older seemed his eye : And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time . He spoke , and words more soft than rain Brought the Age of Gold again : His action won ...
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Page 9 - For, it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
Page 173 - He who knows the most, he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich and royal man.
Page 27 - As the traveller who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world.
Page 216 - We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy. As a political power, as the rightful lord who is to tumble all rulers from their chairs, its presence is hardly yet suspected. Malthus and Ricardo quite omit it ; the Annual Register is silent ; in the Conversations...
Page 6 - The poet is the person in whom these powers are in balance, the man without impediment, who sees and handles that which others dream of, traverses the whole scale of experience, and is representative of man, in virtue of being the largest power to receive and to impart.
Page 42 - And this is the reward; that the ideal shall be real to thee, and the impressions of the actual world shall fall like summer rain, copious, but not troublesome to thy invulnerable essence.
Page 147 - And as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth In form and shape compact and beautiful, In will, in action free, companionship, And thousand other signs of purer life ; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty, born of us And fated to excel us, as we pass In glory that old Darkness: nor are we Thereby more conquer'd than by us the rule Of shapeless Chaos.
Page 7 - The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful ; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.
Page 25 - A rhyme in one of our sonnets should not be less pleasing than the iterated nodes of a seashell, or the resembling difference of a group of flowers.
Page 65 - Human life is made up of the two elements, power and form, and the proportion must be invariably kept, if we would have it sweet and sound.