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... Essays: Second Series - Page 27by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 313 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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 - 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 - 380 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.1 And herein is the legitimation of criticism, in the mind's faith that the poems are a corrupt... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 386 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.1 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...things into higher organic forms, is their change into melodies. Over everything stands its demon, in our flowing affairs a decision must be made, —...at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind odours in the air, and when any man goes by with an ear sufficiently fine, he overhears them, and endeavours... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 556 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...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 - 1884 - 234 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 by the eye, so the soul of the tiling is reflected by a melody. The sea, the mountain-ridge, Niagara, and every flower-bed, pre-exist,... | |
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