 When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added, grace and expression. These proceed from imagination and affection, and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects. If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision,...  Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 55by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...more short-lived or mutable than spirit. Meanwhile, the best, the happiest moments of life, are those delicious awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential withdrawing of nature before its God, which happen to the idealist, who is both a philosopher and a poet. Nature, speaking of spirit, suggests... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...distinctness of objects. If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become transparent, and are no longer seen; causes and spirits are seen through them. The best, the happiest moments of life, are these delicious awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...distinctness of objects. If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become D'2 transparent, and are no longer seen : causes and spirits are seen through them. The best, the happiest moments of lite, are these delicious awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...distinctness of objects. If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become transparent, and are no longer seen; causes...first institution in the Ideal philosophy is a hint f rom nature herself. Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us. Certain mechanical changes,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...distinctness of objects. If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become transparent, and are no longer seen ; causes and spirits are seen through them. The best, the happiest moments of life, are these delicious awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...distinctness of objects. If the reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become transparent and are no longer seen ; causes...are seen through them. The best moments of life are those delicious awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential withdrawing of Nature before its... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1882 - 402 pages
...the faculties of man." " If the reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and services become transparent, and are no longer seen : causes and spirits are seen through them." " The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man." " In a cabinet of natural history we become... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 658 pages
...angular distinctness of objects. If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and sur. faces become transparent, and are no longer seen ;...awakenings of the higher powers, and the reverential withdraw . ing of nature before its God. Lelus proceed to indicate the effects of culture. ( 1. Our... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 674 pages
...distinctness of objects. If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become transparent, and are no longer seen ; causes...them. The best moments of life are these delicious awakeninss O of the higher powers, and the reverential withdrawing of nature before its God. Let us... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1883 - 344 pages
...the faculties of man." " If the reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become transparent, and are no longer seen: causes and spirits are seen through them." " The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man." " In a cabinet of natural history we become... | |
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