The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик - 1041 pages |
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... moral, and therefore the beginnings are such. Thin or solid, everything is in fiight._l_ believe this comic i arm of chemso —that w ' is mat..ter in an alembic. without a vestng Qf the old form; and in ani ation not less, as in rub and ...
... moral, and therefore the beginnings are such. Thin or solid, everything is in fiight._l_ believe this comic i arm of chemso —that w ' is mat..ter in an alembic. without a vestng Qf the old form; and in ani ation not less, as in rub and ...
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... moral use. Men are imaginative, but not overpowered by it to the extent of confounding its suggestions with external facts. We live in both spheres, and must not mix them. Genius certifies its entire possession of its thought, by ...
... moral use. Men are imaginative, but not overpowered by it to the extent of confounding its suggestions with external facts. We live in both spheres, and must not mix them. Genius certifies its entire possession of its thought, by ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. sights and sounds, without any attempt to draw a moral or affix a meaning. The poet discovers that what men value as substances have a higher value as symbols ; that Nature is the immense shadow of man. A man's ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. sights and sounds, without any attempt to draw a moral or affix a meaning. The poet discovers that what men value as substances have a higher value as symbols ; that Nature is the immense shadow of man. A man's ...
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... moral end, we call its action Fancy. Lear, mad with his afiiiction, thinks every man who suffers must have the like cause with his own. “ What, have his daughters brought him to this pass ?" But when, his attention being diverted, his ...
... moral end, we call its action Fancy. Lear, mad with his afiiiction, thinks every man who suffers must have the like cause with his own. “ What, have his daughters brought him to this pass ?" But when, his attention being diverted, his ...
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... moral sequence. Ben Jonson said, “ The principal end of poetry is to inform men in the just reason of living.” Cranium—But there is a third step which poetry takes, and which seems higher than the others, namely, creation, or ideas ...
... moral sequence. Ben Jonson said, “ The principal end of poetry is to inform men in the just reason of living.” Cranium—But there is a third step which poetry takes, and which seems higher than the others, namely, creation, or ideas ...
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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