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" When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression. These proceed from imagination and affection, and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects. If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines... "
Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures - Page 48
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 642 pages
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...more short-lived or mutable than spirit. Meanwhile, the best, the happiest moments of life, are those delicious awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential withdrawing of nature before its God, which happen to the idealist, who is both a philosopher and a poet. Nature, speaking of spirit, suggests...
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The Golden Vase: A Gift for the Young

Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...and affection, and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects. If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become...Let us proceed to indicate the effects of culture, 1. Our first institution in the Ideal philosophy is a hint from nature herself. Nature is made to conspire...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...and affection, and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects. If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become...causes and spirits are seen through them. The best, the happiest moments of life, are these delicious awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...distinctness of objects. If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become D'2 transparent, and are no longer seen : causes and spirits are seen through them. The best, the happiest moments of lite, are these delicious awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential...
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Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...and affection, and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects. If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become...Let us proceed to indicate the effects of culture. 1. Our first institution in the Ideal philosophy is a hint from nature herself. Nature is made to conspire...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...affection, and abate somewhat of^the angular distinctness of objects. _If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become...Let us proceed to indicate the effects of culture. 1. Our first institution in the Ideal philosophy is a hint from nature herself. Nature is made to conspire...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...and affection, and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects. If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become...seen through them. The best moments of life are these deli9 cious awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential withdrawing of nature before its God....
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...and affection, and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects. If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become...Let us proceed to indicate the effects of culture. 1. Our first institution in the Ideal philosophy is a hint from nature herself. Nature is made to conspire...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...and affection, and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects. If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become...Let us proceed to indicate the effects of culture. 1. Our first institution in the Ideal philosophy is a hint f rom nature herself. Nature is made to...
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Orations, Lectures and Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...and affection, and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects. If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become...causes and spirits are seen through them. The best, the happiest moments of life, are these delicious awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential...
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