The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик - 1041 pages |
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Page ix
... heart, partly from a feeling of repugnance at being forced into an enterprise which he had not intended, but still more perhaps from a sense of inability, more real than he knew, which was beginning to make itself felt. He.
... heart, partly from a feeling of repugnance at being forced into an enterprise which he had not intended, but still more perhaps from a sense of inability, more real than he knew, which was beginning to make itself felt. He.
Page 17
... feeling of the moment. The poet squanders on the hour an amount of life that would more than furnish the seventy years of the man that stands next him. The term “genius,” when used with emphasis, implies imagination ; use of symbols ...
... feeling of the moment. The poet squanders on the hour an amount of life that would more than furnish the seventy years of the man that stands next him. The term “genius,” when used with emphasis, implies imagination ; use of symbols ...
Page 26
... feel that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around us, that the light, skies and mountains are but the painted vicissitudes of the soul.I Who has heard our hymn in the churches without accepting the truth, — “ As o'er our ...
... feel that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around us, that the light, skies and mountains are but the painted vicissitudes of the soul.I Who has heard our hymn in the churches without accepting the truth, — “ As o'er our ...
Page 53
... feeling; and so of all other objects in Nature; runs into fable, personifies every fact:—“ the clouds clapped their hands,”— “ the hills skipped," —“ the sky spoke." This is the substance, and this treatment always attempts a metrical ...
... feeling; and so of all other objects in Nature; runs into fable, personifies every fact:—“ the clouds clapped their hands,”— “ the hills skipped," —“ the sky spoke." This is the substance, and this treatment always attempts a metrical ...
Page 68
... proportion as his life departs from this simplicity, he uses circumlocution,-——by many words hoping to suggest what he cannot say. Vexatious to find poets, who are by excellence the thinking and feeling of 68 POETRY AN D IMAGINATION.
... proportion as his life departs from this simplicity, he uses circumlocution,-——by many words hoping to suggest what he cannot say. Vexatious to find poets, who are by excellence the thinking and feeling of 68 POETRY AN D IMAGINATION.
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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