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" The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no... "
Miscellanies - Page 16
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 425 pages
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Oregon Literature

John B. Horner - 1809 - 142 pages
...woodland beyond, but none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts — that is the poet." The poet is the only millionaire that is wealthy enough to purchase a landscape. Yet, no man or woman...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts;...best part of these men's farms, yet to this their land-deeds give .them no title. through me : I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eye can integrate all the parts,...best part of these men's farms, yet to this their land-deeds give them no title. To speak truly, few adult persons can see Nature. Most "persons do not...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye canjntegrate_all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part...seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shinesjnto the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses...
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The Education of the Feelings

Charles Bray - 1849 - 186 pages
...woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts,...best part of these men's farms, yet to this their land-deeds give them no title." " If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast the jewel lies, And...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1850 - 548 pages
...night come out these preachers of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. . . " To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature....see the sun. At least they have a very superficial i seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the...
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Select English poetry, with notes by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eye can integrate all the parts,...best part of these men's farms, yet to this their land-deeds give them no title."— -Emerson. CLEON hath a million acres, Ne'er a one have I ; Cleou...
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Histoire de la philosophie cartésienne, Volume 2

Francisque Cyrille Bouillier - 1854 - 870 pages
...woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts,...best part of these men's farms, yet to this their landdeeds give them no title." " If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast the jewel lies, And...
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Select specimens of English poetry

Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eye can integrate all the parts,...best part of these men's farms, yet to this their land-deeds give them no title." — Emerson. CLEON hath a million acres, Ne'er a one have I ; Cleou...
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The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry

Thomas Starr King - 1859 - 438 pages
...woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts,...best part of these men's farms, yet to this their wai ranty-deeds give no title." The general beauty of the world is a perpetual revelation, and if we...
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