The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 15
... delights to put us between extreme antagonisms , and our safety is in the skill with which we keep the diagonal line . Solitude is impracticable , and so- ciety fatal . We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other . The ...
... delights to put us between extreme antagonisms , and our safety is in the skill with which we keep the diagonal line . Solitude is impracticable , and so- ciety fatal . We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other . The ...
Page 21
... delight . ' Tis wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier . You would think they found it under a pine stump . With it comes a Latin grammar , and one of those tow - head boys has written a hymn on Sunday . Now let ...
... delight . ' Tis wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier . You would think they found it under a pine stump . With it comes a Latin grammar , and one of those tow - head boys has written a hymn on Sunday . Now let ...
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... delight the imagination . " We see insurmountable multitudes obeying , in oppo- sition to their strongest passions , the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive , and the crimes of a single individual marked and pun- ished at ...
... delight the imagination . " We see insurmountable multitudes obeying , in oppo- sition to their strongest passions , the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive , and the crimes of a single individual marked and pun- ished at ...
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... delight , almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian . And in the statue of Canova or the picture of Titian , these give the great part of the pleasure ; they are the basis on which the fine spirit rears a ...
... delight , almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian . And in the statue of Canova or the picture of Titian , these give the great part of the pleasure ; they are the basis on which the fine spirit rears a ...
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... delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem . It is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist does not feel himself to be the parent of his work , and is as much surprised at the effect as we , that we are so ...
... delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem . It is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist does not feel himself to be the parent of his work , and is as much surprised at the effect as we , that we are so ...
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