The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик - 1041 pages |
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Page 20
... Better than images is seen through them.\The selection of tmgdspo more arbitrary than the power ' ' of the ima e. The selection must folloi fate. Werfected, is the only verity; is t e speech of man after the real, and not after the ...
... Better than images is seen through them.\The selection of tmgdspo more arbitrary than the power ' ' of the ima e. The selection must folloi fate. Werfected, is the only verity; is t e speech of man after the real, and not after the ...
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... them. The poet has a logic, though it be subtile. He observes higher laws than he trans— gresses. “ Poetry must first be good sense, though it is something better.” This union of first and second sight reads Nature to. IMAGINATION :1.
... them. The poet has a logic, though it be subtile. He observes higher laws than he trans— gresses. “ Poetry must first be good sense, though it is something better.” This union of first and second sight reads Nature to. IMAGINATION :1.
Page 27
... better lineaments and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all. The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and more minutely ...
... better lineaments and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all. The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and more minutely ...
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... better than any skill of execution,— but how rare ! I find it in the poems of Wordsworth, -—Laodamia, and the Ode to Dion, and the plan of The Recluse. We want design, and do not forgive the bards if they have only the art of enamelling ...
... better than any skill of execution,— but how rare ! I find it in the poems of Wordsworth, -—Laodamia, and the Ode to Dion, and the plan of The Recluse. We want design, and do not forgive the bards if they have only the art of enamelling ...
Page 35
... it cheap, and could do the like all day. On the stage, the farce is commonly far better given than the tragedy, as the stock actors understand the farce, and do not understand the tragedy. The writer in the parlor has more VERACITY 35.
... it cheap, and could do the like all day. On the stage, the farce is commonly far better given than the tragedy, as the stock actors understand the farce, and do not understand the tragedy. The writer in the parlor has more VERACITY 35.
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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