The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик - 1041 pages |
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Page 17
... 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, figurative speech. A deep insight will always, like ...
... 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, figurative speech. A deep insight will always, like ...
Page 21
... hours we can almos_t_pass our hand through our own body. I think the use or value a. po ry to be the suggestion it affords of th fugaciousness of the poet. The mind de - r in measuring itself thus with matter, with history, and flouting ...
... hours we can almos_t_pass our hand through our own body. I think the use or value a. po ry to be the suggestion it affords of th fugaciousness of the poet. The mind de - r in measuring itself thus with matter, with history, and flouting ...
Page 34
... hour in New York and Chicago and San Francisco, into universal symbols, requires a subtile and commanding thought. 'T is boyish in Swedenborg to cumber himself with the dead sCurf of Hebrew antiquity, as if the 34 POETRY AND IMAGINATION.
... hour in New York and Chicago and San Francisco, into universal symbols, requires a subtile and commanding thought. 'T is boyish in Swedenborg to cumber himself with the dead sCurf of Hebrew antiquity, as if the 34 POETRY AND IMAGINATION.
Page 41
... hour is struck, and the world is ripe for them, know as well as coarser how to feed and replenish themselves, and maintain their stock alive, and multiply; for roses and violets renew their race like oaks, and flights of painted moths ...
... hour is struck, and the world is ripe for them, know as well as coarser how to feed and replenish themselves, and maintain their stock alive, and multiply; for roses and violets renew their race like oaks, and flights of painted moths ...
Page 68
... hour beckons usiI But our overpraise and idealization of famous masters is not in its origin a poor Boswellism, but an impatience of mediocrity. 'The praise we now give to our heroes we shall unsay when we make larger demands. How fast ...
... hour beckons usiI But our overpraise and idealization of famous masters is not in its origin a poor Boswellism, but an impatience of mediocrity. 'The praise we now give to our heroes we shall unsay when we make larger demands. How fast ...
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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