The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик - 1041 pages |
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... THE COMIC QUOTATION AND ORIGINALITY PROGRESS OF CULTURE PERSIAN POETRY INSPIRATION GREATNESS IMMORTALITY NOTES IAIII 77 I09 '35 I}; I75“ 205 235 267 199 321 353 I POETRY AND IMAGINATION BUT over all his crowning grace,
... THE COMIC QUOTATION AND ORIGINALITY PROGRESS OF CULTURE PERSIAN POETRY INSPIRATION GREATNESS IMMORTALITY NOTES IAIII 77 I09 '35 I}; I75“ 205 235 267 199 321 353 I POETRY AND IMAGINATION BUT over all his crowning grace,
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... inspired soul reading arguments and afl'irmations in all Nature of that which it is driven to say. But as soon as this soul is released a little from its passion, and at leisure plays with the resemblances and types, for amusement, and ...
... inspired soul reading arguments and afl'irmations in all Nature of that which it is driven to say. But as soon as this soul is released a little from its passion, and at leisure plays with the resemblances and types, for amusement, and ...
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... inspiration is power to carry out and complete the metamorphosis, which, in the imperfect kinds arrested for ages, in the perfecter proceeds rapidly in the same individual. For poetry is science, and the poet a truer logician. Men in ...
... inspiration is power to carry out and complete the metamorphosis, which, in the imperfect kinds arrested for ages, in the perfecter proceeds rapidly in the same individual. For poetry is science, and the poet a truer logician. Men in ...
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... inspires and directs the body, and we measure the inspiration by the music. In reading prose, I am sensitive as soon as a sen— tence drags; but in poetry, as soon as one word drags. Ever as the thought mounts, the expression mounts. 'T ...
... inspires and directs the body, and we measure the inspiration by the music. In reading prose, I am sensitive as soon as a sen— tence drags; but in poetry, as soon as one word drags. Ever as the thought mounts, the expression mounts. 'T ...
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... this is done can alone determine how genuine is the inspiration. The poet is rare because he must be exquisitely vital and sympathetic, and, at the same time, immovably centred. In good society, '70 POETRY AND IMAGINATION.
... this is done can alone determine how genuine is the inspiration. The poet is rare because he must be exquisitely vital and sympathetic, and, at the same time, immovably centred. In good society, '70 POETRY AND 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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