The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик - 1041 pages |
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Page 12
... wolf, or Lucia, signify in Dante's Inferno, but prefers to keep their veils on. Mark the delight of an audience in an image. When some familiar truthor fact appears in a new dress, mounted as on" a 12 POETRY AND IMAGINATION.
... wolf, or Lucia, signify in Dante's Inferno, but prefers to keep their veils on. Mark the delight of an audience in an image. When some familiar truthor fact appears in a new dress, mounted as on" a 12 POETRY AND IMAGINATION.
Page 18
... delight. It infuses a certain volatility and intoxication into all Nature. It has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance. Our indeterminate size is a delicious secret which it reveals to us. The mountains begin to dislimn ...
... delight. It infuses a certain volatility and intoxication into all Nature. It has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance. Our indeterminate size is a delicious secret which it reveals to us. The mountains begin to dislimn ...
Page 22
... delight and of moral use. Men are imaginative, but not overpowered by it to the extent of confounding its suggestions with external facts. We live in both spheres, and must not mix them. Genius certifies its entire possession of its ...
... delight and of moral use. Men are imaginative, but not overpowered by it to the extent of confounding its suggestions with external facts. We live in both spheres, and must not mix them. Genius certifies its entire possession of its ...
Page 35
... delights in the felicity frequently shown in our drawing-rooms. In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy, and the result is that one of the partners ...
... delights in the felicity frequently shown in our drawing-rooms. In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy, and the result is that one of the partners ...
Page 37
... delights in, God delights in too.” Poetry is the consolation of mortal men. They live cabined, cribbed, confined in a narrow and trivial lot,-—in wants, pains, anxieties and superstitions, in profligate politics, in personal animosities ...
... delights in, God delights in too.” Poetry is the consolation of mortal men. They live cabined, cribbed, confined in a narrow and trivial lot,-—in wants, pains, anxieties and superstitions, in profligate politics, in personal animosities ...
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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