The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1876 |
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... never ceased to explore the double meaning , or shall I 2 say the quadruple or the centuple or much more manifold meaning , of every sensuous fact ; ' Orpheus , Empedocles , Heraclitus , Plato , Plu- tarch , Dante , Swedenborg , and the ...
... never ceased to explore the double meaning , or shall I 2 say the quadruple or the centuple or much more manifold meaning , of every sensuous fact ; ' Orpheus , Empedocles , Heraclitus , Plato , Plu- tarch , Dante , Swedenborg , and the ...
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... principal event in chrono- logy . ' Man , never so often deceived , still watches for the arrival of a brother who can hold him steady to a truth until he has made it his own . - With what joy I begin to read a poem THE POET II.
... principal event in chrono- logy . ' Man , never so often deceived , still watches for the arrival of a brother who can hold him steady to a truth until he has made it his own . - With what joy I begin to read a poem THE POET II.
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... flying fish , a little way from the ground or the water ; but the all- piercing , all - feeding and ocular air of heaven that man shall never inhabit . I tumble down again soon into my old nooks , and lead the 12 THE POET.
... flying fish , a little way from the ground or the water ; but the all- piercing , all - feeding and ocular air of heaven that man shall never inhabit . I tumble down again soon into my old nooks , and lead the 12 THE POET.
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... never so surprising , the fact of mechanics has not gained a grain's weight . The spiritual fact remains unalterable , by many or by few particulars ; as no mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere . A ...
... never so surprising , the fact of mechanics has not gained a grain's weight . The spiritual fact remains unalterable , by many or by few particulars ; as no mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere . A ...
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... never can any advantage be taken of nature by a trick . The spirit of the world , the great calm presence of the Creator , comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine . The sublime vision comes to the pure and simple soul in a ...
... never can any advantage be taken of nature by a trick . The spirit of the world , the great calm presence of the Creator , comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine . The sublime vision comes to the pure and simple soul in a ...
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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.