The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1876 |
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... once a poem . Every new rela- tion is a new word . Also we use defects and de- formities to a sacred purpose , so expressing our sense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye . In the old mythology , mytho- logists ...
... once a poem . Every new rela- tion is a new word . Also we use defects and de- formities to a sacred purpose , so expressing our sense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye . In the old mythology , mytho- logists ...
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... once a brilliant picture . Language is fos- sil poetry . As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of ani- malcules , so language is made up of images or tropes , which now , in their secondary use ...
... once a brilliant picture . Language is fos- sil poetry . As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of ani- malcules , so language is made up of images or tropes , which now , in their secondary use ...
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... once seen , we divine that it does not stop . I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics , which also have their tropes , but it is felt in every defi- nition ; as when Aristotle defines space ...
... once seen , we divine that it does not stop . I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics , which also have their tropes , but it is felt in every defi- nition ; as when Aristotle defines space ...
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... Once hav- ing tasted this immortal ichor , he cannot have enough of it , and as an admirable creative power exists in these intellections , it is of the last im- portance that these things get spoken . ' What a little of all we know is ...
... Once hav- ing tasted this immortal ichor , he cannot have enough of it , and as an admirable creative power exists in these intellections , it is of the last im- portance that these things get spoken . ' What a little of all we know is ...
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... once caught in this trap of so - called sci- ences , any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical necessity . Given such an embryo , such a history must follow . On this platform one lives in a sty of sensualism , and ...
... once caught in this trap of so - called sci- ences , any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical necessity . Given such an embryo , such a history must follow . On this platform one lives in a sty of sensualism , and ...
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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.