The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик - 1041 pages |
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... experience puts us in possession of real logic. The poet knows the missing link by the joy it gives. The poet gives us the eminent experiences only,—a god stepping from peak to peak, nor planting his foot but on a mountain.' Science ...
... experience puts us in possession of real logic. The poet knows the missing link by the joy it gives. The poet gives us the eminent experiences only,—a god stepping from peak to peak, nor planting his foot but on a mountain.' Science ...
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... a change of form, rendered to him all his experience. We cannot utter a sentence in sprightly conversation without a similitude. Note our incessant use of the word like,—like fire, like a rock', like thunder, like a POETRY I I.
... a change of form, rendered to him all his experience. We cannot utter a sentence in sprightly conversation without a similitude. Note our incessant use of the word like,—like fire, like a rock', like thunder, like a POETRY I I.
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... experiences. It compares, distributes, generalizes and uplifts them into its own sphere.' It knows that these ... experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.3 This metonymy ...
... experiences. It compares, distributes, generalizes and uplifts them into its own sphere.' It knows that these ... experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.3 This metonymy ...
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... experience, the amateur feigns one. Of course one draws the bow with his fingers and the other with the strength ofhis body ; one speaks with his lips and the other with a chest voice. Talent amuses, but if your verse has not a ...
... experience, the amateur feigns one. Of course one draws the bow with his fingers and the other with the strength ofhis body ; one speaks with his lips and the other with a chest voice. Talent amuses, but if your verse has not a ...
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... experience ofthe poet, recurs to mind, and sends me back in search of the book. And I wish that the poet should foresee this habit of readers, and omit all but the important passages Shakspeare is made up of important passages, like ...
... experience ofthe poet, recurs to mind, and sends me back in search of the book. And I wish that the poet should foresee this habit of readers, and omit all but the important passages Shakspeare is made up of important passages, like ...
Contents
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77 | |
ELOQUENCE | 118 |
RESOURCES | 137 |
THE COMIC | 172 |
PROGRESS OF CULTURE | 205 |
PERSIAN POETRY | 235 |
IMMORTALITY | 321 |
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