The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик - 1041 pages |
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Page 9
... means of them.' His words and his thoughts are framed by their help. Every noun is an image. Nature gives him, sometimes in a flattered likeness, sometimes in caricature, a copy of every humor and shade in his character and mind. The ...
... means of them.' His words and his thoughts are framed by their help. Every noun is an image. Nature gives him, sometimes in a flattered likeness, sometimes in caricature, a copy of every humor and shade in his character and mind. The ...
Page 17
... means of uttering the thought and 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 ...
... means of uttering the thought and 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 ...
Page 18
... mean: are chatty and vain, but hold them hard to principle and definition, and they become mute and near-sighted. What is motion? what is beauty? what is matter? what is life? what is force? Push them hard and they will not be ...
... mean: are chatty and vain, but hold them hard to principle and definition, and they become mute and near-sighted. What is motion? what is beauty? what is matter? what is life? what is force? Push them hard and they will not be ...
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... .” Poetry is the consolation of mortal men. They live cabined, cribbed, confined in a narrow and trivial lot,-—in wants, pains, anxieties and superstitions, in profligate politics, in personal animosities, in mean VERACITY 37.
... .” Poetry is the consolation of mortal men. They live cabined, cribbed, confined in a narrow and trivial lot,-—in wants, pains, anxieties and superstitions, in profligate politics, in personal animosities, in mean VERACITY 37.
Page 38
... mean employments,—and victims of these; and the nobler powers untried, unknown. A poet comes who lifts the veil; gives them ... means and symbols, and not as ends. With such guides they begin to see that what they had called pictures are ...
... mean employments,—and victims of these; and the nobler powers untried, unknown. A poet comes who lifts the veil; gives them ... means and symbols, and not as ends. With such guides they begin to see that what they had called pictures are ...
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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