The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1876 |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below , Which always find us young , And always keep us so . THE POET HOSE who are esteemed umpires of taste '
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below , Which always find us young , And always keep us so . THE POET HOSE who are esteemed umpires of taste '
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... young man reveres men of genius , because , to speak truly , they are more himself than he is . They receive of the soul as he also receives , but they more . Nature enhances her beauty , to the eye of loving men , from their belief ...
... young man reveres men of genius , because , to speak truly , they are more himself than he is . They receive of the soul as he also receives , but they more . Nature enhances her beauty , to the eye of loving men , from their belief ...
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... young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table . He had left his work and gone rambling none knew whither , and had written hundreds of lines , but could not tell whether ...
... young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table . He had left his work and gone rambling none knew whither , and had written hundreds of lines , but could not tell whether ...
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... young men who owe us a new world , so readily and lavishly they promise , but they never acquit the debt ; they die young and dodge the account ; or if they live they lose themselves in the crowd . Temperament also enters fully into the ...
... young men who owe us a new world , so readily and lavishly they promise , but they never acquit the debt ; they die young and dodge the account ; or if they live they lose themselves in the crowd . Temperament also enters fully into the ...
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... young people have thought and written . much on labor and reform , and for all that they have written , neither the world nor themselves have got on a step . " Intellectual tasting of life / will not supersede muscular activity . If a ...
... young people have thought and written . much on labor and reform , and for all that they have written , neither the world nor themselves have got on a step . " Intellectual tasting of life / will not supersede muscular activity . If 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.