The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1876 |
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... rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought . Why covet a knowledge of new facts ? Day and night , house and garden , a few books , a few actions , serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles . We are far from ...
... rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought . Why covet a knowledge of new facts ? Day and night , house and garden , a few books , a few actions , serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles . We are far from ...
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... stock of air for our respiration or for the combustion of our fireplace ; not a measure of gallons , but the entire atmosphere if wanted . And therefore the rich poets , as Homer , Chaucer , Shakspeare , and Raphael , have 40 THE POET.
... stock of air for our respiration or for the combustion of our fireplace ; not a measure of gallons , but the entire atmosphere if wanted . And therefore the rich poets , as Homer , Chaucer , Shakspeare , and Raphael , have 40 THE POET.
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... the horizon . Our life looks trivial , and we shun to record it . Men seem to have learned of the horizon the art of perpetual retreating and reference . Yonder uplands are rich pasturage , and my neighbor has fertile 46 EXPERIENCE.
... the horizon . Our life looks trivial , and we shun to record it . Men seem to have learned of the horizon the art of perpetual retreating and reference . Yonder uplands are rich pasturage , and my neighbor has fertile 46 EXPERIENCE.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. uplands are rich pasturage , and my neighbor has fertile meadow , but my field , ' says the querulous farmer , ' only holds the world together . ' I quote another man's saying ; unluckily that ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. uplands are rich pasturage , and my neighbor has fertile meadow , but my field , ' says the querulous farmer , ' only holds the world together . ' I quote another man's saying ; unluckily that ...
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... rich . Thence comes a new intellectual exaltation , to be again rebuked by some new exhibition of character . Strange alternation of attraction and repulsion ! Character repudiates intellect , yet excites it ; and character passes into ...
... rich . Thence comes a new intellectual exaltation , to be again rebuked by some new exhibition of character . Strange alternation of attraction and repulsion ! Character repudiates intellect , yet excites it ; and character passes into ...
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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.