The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик - 1041 pages |
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... line or a phrase as on a poem,— is that it is a new work of Nature, as a man is. It must be as new as foam and as old as the rock. But a new verse comes once in a hundred years; therefore Pindar, Hafiz, Dante, speak so proudly of what ...
... line or a phrase as on a poem,— is that it is a new work of Nature, as a man is. It must be as new as foam and as old as the rock. But a new verse comes once in a hundred years; therefore Pindar, Hafiz, Dante, speak so proudly of what ...
Page 46
... lines in songs and poems is determined by the inhalation and exhalation of the lungs.3 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,— of the decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or ...
... lines in songs and poems is determined by the inhalation and exhalation of the lungs.3 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,— of the decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or ...
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... lines not being necessary to constitute one), he did not know what poetry meant.” And every good reader will easily recall expressions or passages in works of pure science which have given him the same pleasure which he seeks in ...
... lines not being necessary to constitute one), he did not know what poetry meant.” And every good reader will easily recall expressions or passages in works of pure science which have given him the same pleasure which he seeks in ...
Page 54
... lines each of'which fills the ear of the poet in its turn, so that mere synthesis produces a work quite superhuman. Indeed, the masters sometimes rise above themselves to strains which charm their readers, and which neither any ...
... lines each of'which fills the ear of the poet in its turn, so that mere synthesis produces a work quite superhuman. Indeed, the masters sometimes rise above themselves to strains which charm their readers, and which neither any ...
Page 55
... lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in Ben Jonson's songs, including certainly The Faery beam upon you, etc., Waller's Go, Lovely Rose! Herbert's Virtue and ...
... lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in Ben Jonson's songs, including certainly The Faery beam upon you, etc., Waller's Go, Lovely Rose! Herbert's Virtue and ...
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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