Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... poets , the romancers , do not in their stateliest pictures , -in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will , or of genius , anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our ...
... poets , the romancers , do not in their stateliest pictures , -in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will , or of genius , anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our ...
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... poet , to the philoso- pher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For the eye is fastened on the life , and slights the circumstance . Every chemical sub- stance ...
... poet , to the philoso- pher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For the eye is fastened on the life , and slights the circumstance . Every chemical sub- stance ...
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... poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beauti- fully shines a spirit through the bruteness and toughness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it con- verts all things to its own end . The adamant streams into softest but precise form ...
... poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beauti- fully shines a spirit through the bruteness and toughness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it con- verts all things to its own end . The adamant streams into softest but precise form ...
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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 sufficent reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work , as every spine and tint in the sea - shell pre - exist in the ...
... poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship- builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the sufficent reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work , as every spine and tint in the sea - shell pre - exist in the ...
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... poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confession true for one and true for all . own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , yet ...
... poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confession true for one and true for all . own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , yet ...
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| Title | Essays: First Series Volume 2 of Emerson's complete works : Riverside edition |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | H. Altemus, 1899 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 6 Oct 2015 |
| Length | 322 pages |
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