The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitudeHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1912 |
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... poetic and self - sac- rificing ; breeds courtesy and learning , conver- sation and wit , in her rough mate ; so that I ... poetry are in the coarsest sheet , so that in every house we hesitate to burn a newspaper until we have looked it ...
... poetic and self - sac- rificing ; breeds courtesy and learning , conver- sation and wit , in her rough mate ; so that I ... poetry are in the coarsest sheet , so that in every house we hesitate to burn a newspaper until we have looked it ...
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... Poetry , Painting , Sculp ture , Architecture . This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts . I omit Rhetoric , which only respects the form of eloquence and poetry . Archi- tecture and eloquence are mixed arts , whose end is sometimes ...
... Poetry , Painting , Sculp ture , Architecture . This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts . I omit Rhetoric , which only respects the form of eloquence and poetry . Archi- tecture and eloquence are mixed arts , whose end is sometimes ...
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... poet to a good fable . ” The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem . It is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist does not feel himself to be ...
... poet to a good fable . ” The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem . It is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist does not feel himself to be ...
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... poet aims at getting observations without aim ; to subject to thought things seen without ( voluntary ) thought . ' In eloquence , the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is ... poetry , where every word is free , every VII ART 49.
... poet aims at getting observations without aim ; to subject to thought things seen without ( voluntary ) thought . ' In eloquence , the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is ... poetry , where every word is free , every VII ART 49.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. In poetry , where every word is free , every word is necessary . Good ... poet . The feeling of all great poets has accorded with this . They found the verse , not made it . The muse brought it to ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. In poetry , where every word is free , every word is necessary . Good ... poet . The feeling of all great poets has accorded with this . They found the verse , not made it . The muse brought it to ...
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