The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик - 1041 pages |
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Page 7
... poetic key to Natural Science, of which the theories of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, of Oken, of Goethe, of Agassiz and Owen and Darwin in zoélogy and botany, are the fruits,-—a hint whose power is not yet exhausted, showing unity and ...
... poetic key to Natural Science, of which the theories of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, of Oken, of Goethe, of Agassiz and Owen and Darwin in zoélogy and botany, are the fruits,-—a hint whose power is not yet exhausted, showing unity and ...
Page 8
... poetic perception of metamorphosis, —that the same vegetable point or eye which is the unit of the plant can be ... poet can read their divine significance orderly as in a Bible. Each animal or vegetable form remembers the next ...
... poetic perception of metamorphosis, —that the same vegetable point or eye which is the unit of the plant can be ... poet can read their divine significance orderly as in a Bible. Each animal or vegetable form remembers the next ...
Page 10
... poet who plays with it with most boldness best justifies himself; is most profound and most devout. Passion adds eyes; is a magnifying-glass. Sonnets of lovers are mad enough, but are valuable to the philosopher, as are prayers of ...
... poet who plays with it with most boldness best justifies himself; is most profound and most devout. Passion adds eyes; is a magnifying-glass. Sonnets of lovers are mad enough, but are valuable to the philosopher, as are prayers of ...
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... poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language, uses them representatively, too well pleased with their ulterior to value much their primary meaning. Every new object so seen gives a shock of agreeable ...
... poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language, uses them representatively, too well pleased with their ulterior to value much their primary meaning. Every new object so seen gives a shock of agreeable ...
Page 16
... product, which is not mint and marjoram, but honey; the chemist mixes hydrogen and oxygen to yield a new product, which is not these, but water ; and the poet listens to conversation and beholds all objects in 16 POETRY AND IMAGINATION.
... product, which is not mint and marjoram, but honey; the chemist mixes hydrogen and oxygen to yield a new product, which is not these, but water ; and the poet listens to conversation and beholds all objects in 16 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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