The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик - 1041 pages |
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Page 9
... gives him, sometimes in a flattered likeness, sometimes in caricature, a copy of every humor and shade in his character and mind. The world is an immense picture-book of every passage in human life. Every object he beholds is the mask ...
... gives him, sometimes in a flattered likeness, sometimes in caricature, a copy of every humor and shade in his character and mind. The world is an immense picture-book of every passage in human life. Every object he beholds is the mask ...
Page 10
... 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 does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist ...
... 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 does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist ...
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... Every new object so seen gives a shock of agreeable surprise. The impressions on the imagination make the great days of life: the book, the landscape or the personality which did not stay on the surface of the eye. POETRY. 1. 5.
... Every new object so seen gives a shock of agreeable surprise. The impressions on the imagination make the great days of life: the book, the landscape or the personality which did not stay on the surface of the eye. POETRY. 1. 5.
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... give back, not them, but a new and transcendent whole.' Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of ... gives a miraculous command of all means of uttering the thought and feeling of the moment. The poet squanders on the ...
... give back, not them, but a new and transcendent whole.' Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of ... gives a miraculous command of all means of uttering the thought and feeling of the moment. The poet squanders on the ...
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... gives a pure pleasure. Every one ofa million times we find a charm in the metamorphosis. It makes us dance and sing. All ... Give them Robin Hood's ballads or Griselda, or Sir Andrew Barton, or Sir Patrick Spens, or Chevy Chase, or Tam O ...
... gives a pure pleasure. Every one ofa million times we find a charm in the metamorphosis. It makes us dance and sing. All ... Give them Robin Hood's ballads or Griselda, or Sir Andrew Barton, or Sir Patrick Spens, or Chevy Chase, or Tam O ...
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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