The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик - 1041 pages |
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Page 18
... beauty? what is matter? what is life? what is force? Push them hard and they will not be loquacious. They will come to Plato, Proclus and Swedenborg. The invisible and imponderable is the sole fact. " Why changes not the violet earth ...
... beauty? what is matter? what is life? what is force? Push them hard and they will not be loquacious. They will come to Plato, Proclus and Swedenborg. The invisible and imponderable is the sole fact. " Why changes not the violet earth ...
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... them. Thus Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds, without any attempt to draw a moral 22 POETRY AND IMAGINATION.
... them. Thus Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds, without any attempt to draw a moral 22 POETRY AND IMAGINATION.
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... beauty, and to be related to astronomy and history and the eternal order of the world.I Then the dry twig blossoms in his hand. He is calmed and elevated. The use of “ occasional poems " is to give leave to originality. Every one ...
... beauty, and to be related to astronomy and history and the eternal order of the world.I Then the dry twig blossoms in his hand. He is calmed and elevated. The use of “ occasional poems " is to give leave to originality. Every one ...
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... beauty; but when we rise into the world of thought, and think of these things only for what they signify, speech refines into order and harmony. I know what you say of medizeval barbarism and sleighbell rhyme, but we have not done with ...
... beauty; but when we rise into the world of thought, and think of these things only for what they signify, speech refines into order and harmony. I know what you say of medizeval barbarism and sleighbell rhyme, but we have not done with ...
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... beauty and soul in his aspect as it shines to fancy and feeling; and so of all other objects in Nature; runs into fable, personifies every fact:—“ the clouds clapped their hands,”— “ the hills skipped," —“ the sky spoke." This is the ...
... beauty and soul in his aspect as it shines to fancy and feeling; and so of all other objects in Nature; runs into fable, personifies every fact:—“ the clouds clapped their hands,”— “ the hills skipped," —“ the sky spoke." This is the ...
Contents
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ELOQUENCE | 118 |
RESOURCES | 137 |
THE COMIC | 172 |
PROGRESS OF CULTURE | 205 |
PERSIAN POETRY | 235 |
IMMORTALITY | 321 |
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