 But never can any advantage be taken of nature by a trick. The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the Creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine. The sublime vision comes to the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste...  The New Fraternity: A Novel of University Life - Page 248by George Frederick Gundelfinger - 1916 - 301 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...won, by a dissipation and deterioration. But never can any advantage be taken of nature by a trick. The spirit of the world, the, great calm presence...the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body. That is not an inspiration which we owe to narcotics, but some counterfeit excitement and fury. Milton... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...won, by a dissipation and deterioration. But never can any advantage be taken of nature by a trick. The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of...the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body. That is not an inspiration which we owe to narcotics, but some counterfeit excitement and fury. Milton... | |
 | 1845 - 670 pages
...won, by a dissipation and deterioration. But never can any advantage be taken of nature by a trick. The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of...the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body. That which we owe to narcotics is not an inspiration, but some counterfeit excitement and fury. Milton... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...he would daguerreotype the soul, and paint the " divine vision," which Emerson tells us " comes only to the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body," he must live up to the ideal he would depict. There are men who claim to be poets who set at defiance... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 pages
...won, by a dissipation and deterioration. But never can any advantage be taken of nature by a trick. The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the Creator, conies hot forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine. The sublime vision comes to the pure and simple... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 274 pages
...won, by a dissipation and deterioration. But never can any advantage be taken of nature by a trick. The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of...the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body. That is not an inspiration which we owe to narcotics, but some counterfeit excitement and fury. Milton... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...won, by a dissipation and deterioration. But never can any advantage be taken of nature by a trick. The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of...the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body. That is not an inspiration which we owe to narcotics, but some counterfeit excitement and fury. Milton... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...won, by a dissipation and deterioration. But never can any advantage be taken of nature by a trick. The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of...the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body. That is not an inspiration which we owe to narcotics, but some counterfeit excitement and fury. Milton... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 382 pages
...won, by a dissipation and deterioration. But never can any advantage be taken of nature by a trick. The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of...the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body. That is not an inspiration, which we owe to narcotics, but some counterfeit excitement and fury. Milton... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...won, by a dissipation and deterioration. But never can any advantage be taken of nature by a trick. The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of...the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body. That is not an inspiration which we owe to narcotics, but some counterfeit excitement and fury. Milton... | |
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