The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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Page xxvi
... poetic nature looked on beneficent law as universal , working alike on matter or See his two poems " The Harp , " and " Maiden Speech of the Æolian Harp . " spirit ; hence analogies could be read either way from xxvi BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
... poetic nature looked on beneficent law as universal , working alike on matter or See his two poems " The Harp , " and " Maiden Speech of the Æolian Harp . " spirit ; hence analogies could be read either way from xxvi BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
Page xxvii
... poetic teachings of the ancient phi- losophers , especially " The Flowing of the Uni- verse " by Heracleitus and the " Identity " by Xenophanes and others , prepared his mind . 5. He had undoubtedly early read of Leib- nitz's scale of ...
... poetic teachings of the ancient phi- losophers , especially " The Flowing of the Uni- verse " by Heracleitus and the " Identity " by Xenophanes and others , prepared his mind . 5. He had undoubtedly early read of Leib- nitz's scale of ...
Page xxxviii
... poet , whether in prose or rhyme , though he struggled long to attain rhythmical expression . He said , " I like my poems best because it is not I who write them . " He consoled himself for not hav- ing a musical ear in having " musical ...
... poet , whether in prose or rhyme , though he struggled long to attain rhythmical expression . He said , " I like my poems best because it is not I who write them . " He consoled himself for not hav- ing a musical ear in having " musical ...
Page 8
... poet . The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms . Miller owns this field , Locke that , and Manning the woodland beyond . But none of them owns the landscape . There is a ...
... poet . The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms . Miller owns this field , Locke that , and Manning the woodland beyond . But none of them owns the landscape . There is a ...
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... poet , the painter , the sculptor , the musician , the architect , seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point , and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce . Thus is ...
... poet , the painter , the sculptor , the musician , the architect , seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point , and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce . Thus is ...
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