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Page viii
... remembered that Mr. Emerson always disclaimed the credit for Letter: and Social Aims, and in speaking to Mr. Cabot always called it “ your book." December, 1903. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION T seems proper to mention viii PREFACE.
... remembered that Mr. Emerson always disclaimed the credit for Letter: and Social Aims, and in speaking to Mr. Cabot always called it “ your book." December, 1903. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION T seems proper to mention viii PREFACE.
Page ix
Ralph Waldo Emerson. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION T seems proper to mention here the circumstances under which this volume was put together, as they may have some bearing upon the estimate to be placed upon it. Some time perhaps in 1870 ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION T seems proper to mention here the circumstances under which this volume was put together, as they may have some bearing upon the estimate to be placed upon it. Some time perhaps in 1870 ...
Page 38
... 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 taking forms of their own,— when the poet invents the fable, and 33 POETRY AND IMAGINATION.
... 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 taking forms of their own,— when the poet invents the fable, and 33 POETRY AND IMAGINATION.
Page 40
... seems to the clown a jingle. The writer, like the priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health ; he must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is'sometimes caught up into a perception of ...
... seems to the clown a jingle. The writer, like the priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health ; he must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is'sometimes caught up into a perception of ...
Page 65
... seems to bind it.I In the world of letters how few commanding oracles! Homer did what he could; Pindar, JEschylus, and the Greek Gnomic poets and the tragedians. Dante was faithful when not carried away by his fierce hatreds. But in so ...
... seems to bind it.I In the world of letters how few commanding oracles! Homer did what he could; Pindar, JEschylus, and the Greek Gnomic poets and the tragedians. Dante was faithful when not carried away by his fierce hatreds. But in so ...
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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