Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... poetic . John Eliot , the Indian Apostle , drank water , and said of wine , " It is a noble , generous liquor and we should be humbly thankful for it , but , as I remember , water was made before it . " Better still is the temperance of ...
... poetic . John Eliot , the Indian Apostle , drank water , and said of wine , " It is a noble , generous liquor and we should be humbly thankful for it , but , as I remember , water was made before it . " Better still is the temperance of ...
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... poets , the romancers , do not in their stateliest pictures , -in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the tri- umphs of will or of genius , -anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we in- trude , that this is for our ...
... poets , the romancers , do not in their stateliest pictures , -in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the tri- umphs of will or of genius , -anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we in- trude , that this is for our ...
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... poet- ry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no ...
... poet- ry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no ...
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... poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For the eye is fastened on the life , and slights the circumstance . Every chem- ical substance ...
... poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For the eye is fastened on the life , and slights the circumstance . Every chem- ical substance ...
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First Series ; Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beautifully shines a spirit through the brute- ness and toughness of matter . Alone omnip- otent , it converts all things to its own end ...
First Series ; Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beautifully shines a spirit through the brute- ness and toughness of matter . Alone omnip- otent , it converts all things to its own end ...
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