Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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... of friend- ship and love and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self - reliance . It is remark- able that involuntarily we always read as superior beings . Universal history , the poets , the roman- Bistory . 9 HEROISM.
... of friend- ship and love and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self - reliance . It is remark- able that involuntarily we always read as superior beings . Universal history , the poets , the roman- Bistory . 9 HEROISM.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. beings . Universal history , the poets , the roman- cers , do not in their stateliest pictures , -in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius , -anywhere lose our ear , any- where ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. beings . Universal history , the poets , the roman- cers , do not in their stateliest pictures , -in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius , -anywhere lose our ear , any- where ...
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... others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect consists in the clearer vision of causes , which overlooks surface differences . To the poet , to the 14 History .
... others by intrinsic likeness , or by the relation of cause and effect . The progress of the intellect consists in the clearer vision of causes , which overlooks surface differences . To the poet , to the 14 History .
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. overlooks surface differences . To the poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are ... poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beautifully shines a spirit through the bruteness and tough- ness of ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. overlooks surface differences . To the poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are ... poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beautifully shines a spirit through the bruteness and tough- ness of ...
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... poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship - builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work , as every spine and tint in the sea - shell pre - exist in the secreting ...
... poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship - builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work , as every spine and tint in the sea - shell pre - exist in the secreting ...
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