The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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Page 399
... Proclus , Syne- sius , and the rest , have somewhat so vast in their logic , so primary in their thinking , that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature , and to be at once poetry , and music ...
... Proclus , Syne- sius , and the rest , have somewhat so vast in their logic , so primary in their thinking , that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature , and to be at once poetry , and music ...
Page 429
... Proclus calls the universe the statue of the intellect ; when Chaucer , in his praise of ' Gen- tilesse , ' compares good blood in mean condition to fire , which , though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of ...
... Proclus calls the universe the statue of the intellect ; when Chaucer , in his praise of ' Gen- tilesse , ' compares good blood in mean condition to fire , which , though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of ...
Page 539
... Proclus , but a piece of nature and fate that I explore . It is a greater joy to see the author's author , than himself . A higher pleasure of the same kind I found lately at a concert , where I went to hear Handel's Messiah . As the ...
... Proclus , but a piece of nature and fate that I explore . It is a greater joy to see the author's author , than himself . A higher pleasure of the same kind I found lately at a concert , where I went to hear Handel's Messiah . As the ...
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