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" Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number; But, leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. "Pass in, pass in," the angels say, "In to the upper doors,... "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction ... - Page 332
by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1904
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Poems

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...
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Poems

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...
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Essays: The poet. Experience. Character. Manners. Gifts. Nature. Politics ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 386 pages
...Commonwealth. Page l92, note I, This image is carried out in the early poem "The Forerunners." Page 19j, note I. In "Tantalus" this passage follows: "So is...forests bearing witness, and the Man of Destiny of the early nineteenth century proving by his overthrow, that like begets only like. The precedent of...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 380 pages
...varied tone ; They chant the bliss of their abodes To man imprisoned in his own. "My Garden," Poemt. POLITICS This essay was based on a lecture in the...forests bearing witness, and the Man of Destiny of the early nineteenth century proving by his overthrow, that like begets only like. The precedent of...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 386 pages
...nineteenth Christian century he has found one man — it does not appear whether himself or another — " w whom no weight of adverse experience will make it...forests bearing witness, and the Man of Destiny of the early nineteenth century proving by his overthrow, that like begets only like. The precedent of...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 382 pages
...whether himself or another — '• to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a mo* ment impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise...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...
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Selected Poems

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,...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

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,...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volume 4

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...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy

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...
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