| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...marches of the brave ; And prayers of might from martyrs' cave. Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With...pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. ' Pass in, pass in,' the angels say, In to the upper doors, Nor count compartments of the floors, But... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...marches of the brave, And prayers of might from martyrs' cave. Great is the art, Great be the manners of the bard ! He shall not his brain encumber With...pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme: Pass in, pass in, the angels say, In to the upper doors; Nor count compartments of the floors, But... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 386 pages
...strength of the thought would be lost in too much attention to melodious expression. His " Merlin" says of the bard: — He shall not his brain encumber With...old Cymrian forests bearing witness, and the Man of Destiny of the early nineteenth century proving by his overthrow, that like begets only like. The precedent... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 382 pages
...strength of the thought would be lost in too much attention to melodious expression. His " Merlin " says of the bard: — He shall not his brain encumber With...old Cymrian forests bearing witness, and the Man of Def y ot the curly nineteenth century proving by his overthrow, that [ike begets only like. The precedent... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 380 pages
...strength of the thought would be lost in too much attention to melodious expression. His " Merlin " says of the bard: — He shall not his brain encumber With...old Cymrian forests bearing witness, and the Man of Destiny of the early nineteenth century proving by his overthrow, that like begets only like. The precedent... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...the bard that he puts in the lips of Merlin in his poem: — Great is the art, Great be the manners of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With...pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. " Pass in, pass in," the angels say, "In to the upper doors, Nor count compartments of the floors,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...marches of the brave; And prayers of might from martyrs' cave. Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With...pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. ' Pass in, pass in,' the angels say, ' In to the upper doors, Nor count compartments of the floors,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 pages
...marches of the brave; And prayers of might from martyrs' cave. Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With...leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb 1'or his rhyme. ' Pass in, pass in,' the angels say, ' In to the upper doors, Nor count compartments... | |
| George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
...the meter. This he justifies in Merlin, where he says, — " Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With...pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme, And mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise." As the first condition of poetic power, the poet... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...weight of the spiritual element. Judge them by the artist's conception of his art: 'Great be the manners of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhjthm and number; But, leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. Nor count... | |
| |