Over everything stands its daemon or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected by the eye, so the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody. The sea, the mountain-ridge, Niagara, and every flower-bed, pre-exist, or super-exist, in pre-cantations,... The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series - Page 25by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...things into higher organic forms, is their change into melodies. Over everything stands its da3mon, or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected...write down the notes, without diluting or depraving them. And herein is the legitimation of criticism, in the mind's faith, that the poems are a corrupt... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...things into higher organic forms, is their change into melodies. Over everything stands its dsemon, or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected...write down the notes, without diluting or depraving them. And herein is the legitimation of criticism, in the mind's faith, that the poems are a corrupt... | |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1851 - 268 pages
...midst was the projecting stomach of Signor Bochsa. ' Over everything,' says Emerson, ' stands its demon or soul; and, as the form of the thing is reflected...so the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody.' " We were pained to see, when the fair songstress came forward to the lights, that her fatigues, for... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 pages
...things into higher organic forms, is their change into melodies. Over everything stands its daemon, or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected...write down the notes, without diluting or depraving them. And herein is the legitimation of criticism, in the mind's faith, that the poems are a corrupt... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 274 pages
...things into higher organic forms, is their change into melodies. Over everything stands its daemon, or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected...like odors in the air, and when any man goes by with au ear sufficiently fine, he overhears them, and endeavors to write down the notes, without diluting... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...things into higher organic forms, is their change into melodies. Over everything stands its demon, or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected...of the thing is reflected by a melody. The sea, the mountain ridge, Niagara, and every flower-bed, pre-exist, or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...things into higher organic forms, is their change into melodies. Over everything stands its demon, or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected...the thing^ is reflected by a melody. The sea, the mountain ridge, Niagara, and every flower-bed, pre-exist, or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...things into higher organic forms, is their change into melodies. Over everything stands its demon, or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected...write down the notes, without diluting or depraving them. And herein is the legitimation of criticism, in the mind's faith, that the poems are a corrupt... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 382 pages
...of things into higher organic forms is their change into melodies. Over everything stands its daemon or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected...write down the notes without diluting or depraving them.' And herein is the legitimation of criticism, in the mind's faith that the poems are a corrupt... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 pages
...things into higher organic forms, is their change into melodies. Over everything stands its demon, or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected...and every flower-bed, pre-exist, or super-exist, in pre-cantatious, which sail like odors in the air, and when any man goes by with an ear sufficiently... | |
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