The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик - 1041 pages |
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Page 14
... carry my satchel still.” Machiavel described the papacy as “a stone inserted in the body of Italy to keep the wound ... carried to its logical extreme by the Hindoos, who, following Buddha, have made it the central doctrine of their ...
... carry my satchel still.” Machiavel described the papacy as “a stone inserted in the body of Italy to keep the wound ... carried to its logical extreme by the Hindoos, who, following Buddha, have made it the central doctrine of their ...
Page 31
... carry him; or a sailor, who can only land where sails can be blown.' And yet it is to be added that high poetry exceeds the fact, or Nature itself,just as skates allow the good skater far more grace than his best walking would show, or ...
... carry him; or a sailor, who can only land where sails can be blown.' And yet it is to be added that high poetry exceeds the fact, or Nature itself,just as skates allow the good skater far more grace than his best walking would show, or ...
Page 39
... carry out and complete the metamorphosis, which, in the imperfect kinds arrested for ages, in the perfecter proceeds rapidly in the same individual. For poetry is science, and the poet a truer logician. Men in the courts or in the ...
... carry out and complete the metamorphosis, which, in the imperfect kinds arrested for ages, in the perfecter proceeds rapidly in the same individual. For poetry is science, and the poet a truer logician. Men in the courts or in the ...
Page 54
... carry a sentence as a jewel is carried in a case: the verse must be alive, and inseparable from its contents, as the soul of man inspires and directs the body, and we measure the inspiration by the music. In reading prose, I am ...
... carry a sentence as a jewel is carried in a case: the verse must be alive, and inseparable from its contents, as the soul of man inspires and directs the body, and we measure the inspiration by the music. In reading prose, I am ...
Page 65
... carried away by his fierce hatreds. But in so many alcoves of English poetry I can count only nine or ten authors who are still inspirers and lawgivers to their race. The supreme value of poetry is to educate us to a height beyond ...
... carried away by his fierce hatreds. But in so many alcoves of English poetry I can count only nine or ten authors who are still inspirers and lawgivers to their race. The supreme value of poetry is to educate us to a height beyond ...
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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