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As they trample on nationalities to reproduce London and Londoners in Europe and Asia , so they fear the hostility of ideas , of poetry , of religion - ghosts which they cannot lay ; -and , having attempted to domesticate and dress the ...
As they trample on nationalities to reproduce London and Londoners in Europe and Asia , so they fear the hostility of ideas , of poetry , of religion - ghosts which they cannot lay ; -and , having attempted to domesticate and dress the ...
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The English have lost sight of the fact that poetry exists to speak the spiritual law , and that no wealth of ... Therefore the grave old poets , like the Greek artists , heeded their designs , and less considered the finish .
The English have lost sight of the fact that poetry exists to speak the spiritual law , and that no wealth of ... Therefore the grave old poets , like the Greek artists , heeded their designs , and less considered the finish .
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use . people fancy they hate poetry , and they are all poets and mystics ! Beyond this universality of the symbolic language , we are apprised of the divineness of this superior use of things , whereby the world is a temple , whose ...
use . people fancy they hate poetry , and they are all poets and mystics ! Beyond this universality of the symbolic language , we are apprised of the divineness of this superior use of things , whereby the world is a temple , whose ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND I | 1 |
RACE AND ABILITY II | 11 |
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| Title | Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson The Camelot series |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | W. Scott, 1888 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 19 Sep 2005 |
| Length | 351 pages |
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