The poet is the person in whom these powers are in balance, the man without impediment, who sees and handles that which others dream of, traverses the whole scale of experience, and is representative of man, in virtue of being the largest power to receive... Essays: Second Series - Page 7by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 313 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1845 - 670 pages
...which allies him very closely with both ancient and modern Pagans. * "The Universe — he tells us — has three children born at one time, which reappear,...theologically, the Father, the Spirit, and the Son ;" and therefore they must reappear in Mr. Emerson's system of thought, and his Trinity is, " the Knower,... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1845 - 878 pages
...of mythic scepticism and verbal orthodoxy, which possibly some may admire as profound philosophy : " F ;Eڕ( b PW " = ͼ 2 2 w = _ N820 q +e O U + . L۟ ...r! |p g(J@/ . ;I z _NS$Ԗ } v a & Jone, Pluto, Neptune ; or, theologically, the Father, the Spirit, and the .Son ; but which we will... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 pages
...impediment, who sees and handles that which others dream of, traverses the whole scale of experience, and is representative of man, in virtue of being the largest...under different names, in every system of thought, \\ihether they be called cause, operation, and effect ; or, more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune ;... | |
| John Chalmers - 1876 - 142 pages
...shan." Chu-tsze — On Mind. " Shan is the operation of Ti " (Shang-ti}. YiJc-king, Comm. (488). " The Universe has three children, born at one time,...Father, the Spirit•^, and the Son ; but which we call here the Knower, the Doer, and the Sayer." Emerson — The Poet. Parallel 9. " Therefore the ghost-shan... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 pages
...impediment, who sees and handles that which others dream of, traverses the whole scale of experience, and is representative of man, in virtue of being the largest...in every system of thought, whether they be called canse, operation, and effect; or, more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune; or, theologically, the Father,... | |
| Cunningham Geikie - 1887 - 244 pages
...universe," we are told, " has three children, which reappear under different names in every system of human thought whether they be called Cause, Operation, and Effect; or, more poetically, Jove, Neptune, Pluto; or, theologically, the Father, the Spirit, and the Sou." Another flower of his rhetoric... | |
| Cunningham Geikie - 1888 - 320 pages
...universe," we are told, "has three children, which reappear under different names in every system of human thought, whether they be called Cause, Operation, and Effect ; or, more poetically, Jove, Neptune, Pluto; or, theologically, the Father, the Spirit, and the Son." Another flower of his rhetoric... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1893 - 640 pages
...Fasst und erhält er nicht Dich, mich, sich selbst?" "The Universe has three children," says Emerson, "born at one time, which reappear, under different names, in every system of thought" ; and, again, "The soul circumscribeth all things." Carl vie wrote, "Nature was to this man what to... | |
| Sara A. Francis Underwood, Sara A. Underwood - 1896 - 362 pages
...impediment, who sees and handles that which others dream of, traverses the whole scale of experience, and is representative of man, in virtue of being the largest power to receive and impart. Again : The poet knows that he speaks adequately then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 190 pages
...impediment, who sees and handles that which others dream of, traverses the whole scale of experience, and is representative of man in virtue of being the largest power to receive and impart." — EMKHSON in The Poet. " All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.... | |
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