The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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... Italy , seeing their sculptured deities and heroes and the con- trast between these faces and those of the living throng around , he said , " These are the counte- nances of the first - born , the face of man in the morning of the world ...
... Italy , seeing their sculptured deities and heroes and the con- trast between these faces and those of the living throng around , he said , " These are the counte- nances of the first - born , the face of man in the morning of the world ...
Page xli
... Italy and on the Nile helped , but could not restore him . On his return he found himself unable to prepare a promised book of essays ( Letters and Social Aims ) . This task was cheerfully accomplished by his trusted and valued friend ...
... Italy and on the Nile helped , but could not restore him . On his return he found himself unable to prepare a promised book of essays ( Letters and Social Aims ) . This task was cheerfully accomplished by his trusted and valued friend ...
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... analogous impression on the mind . What is common to them all , - that per- fectness and harmony , is beauty . The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms , - the totality of nature ; which the Italians ex- BEAUTY 23.
... analogous impression on the mind . What is common to them all , - that per- fectness and harmony , is beauty . The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms , - the totality of nature ; which the Italians ex- BEAUTY 23.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. - the totality of nature ; which the Italians ex- pressed by defining beauty " il più nell ' uno . " Nothing is quite beautiful alone ; nothing but is beautiful in the whole . A single object is ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. - the totality of nature ; which the Italians ex- pressed by defining beauty " il più nell ' uno . " Nothing is quite beautiful alone ; nothing but is beautiful in the whole . A single object is ...
Page 111
... Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art , or Provençal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common , I explore and sit at the feet of the fa- miliar , the low . Give me insight into to - day , and you may have the antique and future worlds . What ...
... Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art , or Provençal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common , I explore and sit at the feet of the fa- miliar , the low . Give me insight into to - day , and you may have the antique and future worlds . What ...
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