The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик - 1041 pages |
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... expressions. A figurative statement arrests attention, and is remembered and repeated. How often has a phrase of this kind made a reputation. Pythagoras's Golden Sayings'were such, and Socrates's, and Mirabeau's, and Burke's, and ...
... expressions. A figurative statement arrests attention, and is remembered and repeated. How often has a phrase of this kind made a reputation. Pythagoras's Golden Sayings'were such, and Socrates's, and Mirabeau's, and Burke's, and ...
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... expression may indicate this high gift, even when the thought is ofno great scope, as when Michel Angelo, praising the term tartar, said, “ If this earth were to become marble, woe to the antiques ! " A happy symbol is a sort of ...
... expression may indicate this high gift, even when the thought is ofno great scope, as when Michel Angelo, praising the term tartar, said, “ If this earth were to become marble, woe to the antiques ! " A happy symbol is a sort of ...
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... expression of a sound mind speaking after the ideal, and not after the apparent.' As a power it is the perception of the symbolic character of things, and the treating them as representative: as a talent it is a magnetic tenaciousness ...
... expression of a sound mind speaking after the ideal, and not after the apparent.' As a power it is the perception of the symbolic character of things, and the treating them as representative: as a talent it is a magnetic tenaciousness ...
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... expression ; that it is elemental, or in the core ofthings. Veracity therefore is that which we require in poets,— that they shall say how it was with them, and not what might be said. And the fault of our VERACITY 29.
... expression ; that it is elemental, or in the core ofthings. Veracity therefore is that which we require in poets,— that they shall say how it was with them, and not what might be said. And the fault of our VERACITY 29.
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... expression of it as the man who sees his way walks in it.I It is a rule in eloquence, that the moment the orator loses command of his audience, the audi— ence commands him. So in poetry, the master rushes to deliver his thought, and the ...
... expression of it as the man who sees his way walks in it.I It is a rule in eloquence, that the moment the orator loses command of his audience, the audi— ence commands him. So in poetry, the master rushes to deliver his thought, and the ...
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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