 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...precise outline, the immeasurable and divine: Beauty hiding all wisdom and power in its calm sky. All high beauty has a moral element in it, and I find...proportion to the depth of thought. Gross and obscure nature, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendour to youth, and awe to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 270 pages
...precise outline, the immeasurable and divine ; Beauty hiding all wisdom and power in its calm sky. All high beauty has a moral element in it, and I find...thought. Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, SOCHI impure shambles ; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray huirs.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...precise outline, the immeasurable and divine: Beauty hiding all wisdom and power in its calm sky. All high beauty has a moral element in it, and I find...decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendour to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. An adorer of truth we cannot choose but... | |
 | 1868 - 402 pages
...is mother-wit : forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour." " Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem...youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray h'airs." Yet prevailingly we think of him rather as the eavesdropper of nature, who has overheard even her forbidden... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...precise outline, the immeasurable and divine : Beauty hiding all wisdom and power in its calm sky. All high beauty has a moral element in it, and I find...splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray ham. An adorer of truth we cannot choose but obey, and the woman who has shared with us the moral sentiment,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 500 pages
...precise outline, the immeasurable and divine Beauty hiding all wisdom and power in its calm sky. All high beauty has a moral element in it, and I find...antique sculpture as ethical as Marcus Antoninus : and tho beauty ever in proportion to the depth of thought. Gross anrl obscure natures, however decorated,... | |
 | Monday Club (Boston). - 1877 - 456 pages
...the atmosphere of a soul refined to its highest uses. " All high beauty has a moral element in it. Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem...to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs." God has been at great pains to fit souls for this service. We recognize their authority in every path... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 856 pages
...the imnieasurcable and diviue — beauty hiding all wisdom and power in its calm sky. All high beaatv has a moral element in It, and I find the antique sculpture as elhieal as Marcus Antoninus, and the l>canty ever in proportion to the depth of thought Uro-s and Impure... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...precise outline, the immeasurable and divine ; Beauty hiding all wisdom and power in its calm sky. All n (whose lectures we had all been reading in Boston) he knew only the name. I splendour to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. An adorer of truth we cannot choose but... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 558 pages
...and divine : Beauty hiding all wisdom and power in its calm sky. All high beauty has a moral clement in it, and I find the antique sculpture as ethical...to the depth of thought Gross and obscure natures, howover decorated, seem impure shambles ; but character gives splendour to youth, and awe to wrinkled... | |
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This is that haughty force of beauty, " vis superba forma " which the poets praise, — under calm and precise outline, the immeasurable and divine: Beauty hiding all wisdom and power in its calm sky. All high beauty has a moral element in it, and I find... 
