 | Douglas Jerrold - 1845 - 604 pages
...boundary." " The poets made all the words. * * For though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolised the world to the first speaker and the first hearer." " The religions of the world are the... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1845 - 658 pages
...boundary." " The poets made all the words. * * For though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolised the world to the first speaker and the first hearer." " The religions of the world are the... | |
 | William Swinton - 1859 - 326 pages
...the deep heart of man !" 55 ALASTOR. " RAMBLE FOURTH. FOSSIL POETRIES. " Language is fossil poetry. The Etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1860 - 292 pages
...the important or charac* Renan, p. 143. " Though the origin of most of our words u forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolised the world to the speaker and the hearer. ... As the limestone of the Continent consists... | |
 | William Swinton - 1872 - 310 pages
...Language is fossil poetry. The Etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animal*ules7 so language is made up of images or tropes, which now; to their secondary use, have long... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...say it, a sort of tomb of the muses. For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained...The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been onco a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 pages
...of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genins, and obtained currency, becanse for the moment it symbolized the world to the first...continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animaleules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 386 pages
...say it, a sort of tomb of the muses. For though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained...symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer.1 The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...Essays — that on The Poet — says : " Though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained...currency, because for the moment it symbolized the word to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once... | |
 | 1928 - 692 pages
...faded metaphors. And we are all familiar with Emerson's saying that all language is fossil poetry, that the etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture and that language is made up of images and tropes, which now in their secondary use have long since... | |
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For though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to... 
