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" 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. "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 2d series - Page 9
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876
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Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...writes (TVte Poet) that what makes a poem is not metres, but "a thought so passionate and alive that ... it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." 57. Cf. Emerson's lines To JW : — " Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark." Why...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 40

1854 - 694 pages
...— that in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form — •' л thought so passiouato and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, nuil adorns nature with a new thing." How plainly Mr. Willis is thought a contemporary, not an eternal...
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The Prospective Review: A Quarterly Journal of Theology and Literature, Volume 1

1845 - 670 pages
...cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations." — " It is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." — " In our way of talking we say, ' That is yours, this is mine,' but the Poet knows well that it...
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Proceedings. [Imperf. With] Index, vol.i to lxii

Literary and philosophical society of Liverpool - 1851 - 742 pages
...within. It was the same in poetry, which was not rythmic or cadenced words, but a voice of the heart—" a thought so passionate and alive, that like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it had an architecture of its own." In every one of the arts, the same law held sway : the elements used...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 99

1853 - 538 pages
...The argument is secondary, the finish of the verses is primary" — in disregard of the truth that it is not metres, but a metremaking argument, that makes a poem — that in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form — " a thought so passionate and...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 99

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 516 pages
...The argument is secondary, the finish of the verses is primary" — in disregard of the truth that it is not metres, but a metremaking argument, that makes a poem — that in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form — " a thought so passionate and...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 31

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 pages
...The argument is secondary, the finish of the verses is primary" — in disregard of the truth that it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem; that in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form — " a thought so passionate and alive,...
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The Newchurchman, devoted to the exposition and defence of the ..., Volumes 1-3

1855 - 446 pages
...something of our own; and so mis-write the poem." Here also is another definition of true poetry ; — "a thought so passionate and alive, that like the spirit of a plant, or an animal, it has an arehiteeture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." Bnt in aeeordanee with the quotation...
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The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and ..., Volumes 1-3

Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...little for the dress of his lines ; the rhyme is altogether secondary ; he justifies himself by saying, "It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing," And yet, strange as the metre may be, we remember no poet whose lines more pointedly impress themselves...
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Cosmo De' Medici: An Historical Tragedy, and Other Poems

Richard H. Horne - 1875 - 192 pages
...tJie present time.~\ V } aJ ^ -7 ii, i •),«,-* * ~u* vr"3i ! -fA« )f^^"f""> MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. "It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that...architecture of its own, and, adorns Nature with a nem thing And this is tlte reward : that the ideal ihall be the real to thee, and the impressions of...
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