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" Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace. The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance... "
Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures - Page 31
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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The Golden Vase: A Gift for the Young

Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...suggests this universal grace. The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on...works. The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...suggests this universal grace. The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on...works. The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. Extend this element to the uttermost, and I call it an ultimate end. No reason...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...suggests this universal grace. The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on...works. The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. Extend this element to the uttermost, and I call it an ultimate end. No reason...
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Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...suggests this universal grace. The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on...works. The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...suggests this universal grace. The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on...works. The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1849 - 448 pages
...constitution. In proportion to the energy of his thought and will, he takes up the world into himself." " Thus in art, does nature work through the will of a man filled with the beauty of her first works." " Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...suggests this universal grace. The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on...works. The world thus' exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This elenjent I call an ultimate end. No reason can' be asked or given why the...
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Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and ..., Volume 2

Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 816 pages
...suggests this universal g^roce. The poet, the pointer, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on...works. The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...universal grace. The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concenIrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each...works. The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the...
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Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and ..., Volume 2

Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 808 pages
...poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radinnco of the world on one point, and each in his several...nature passed through the alembic of man. Thus, in art, docs nature work through the will of a man lillcd with the benuty of her first works. The world thus...
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