The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 39
... Divine Art . " Art , univer- sally , is the spirit creative . It was defined by Aristotle , " The reason of the thing , without the matter . " If we follow the popular distinction of works according to their aim , we should say , the ...
... Divine Art . " Art , univer- sally , is the spirit creative . It was defined by Aristotle , " The reason of the thing , without the matter . " If we follow the popular distinction of works according to their aim , we should say , the ...
Page 53
... Divine mind , and is now only discovered and executed by the artist , not arbitrarily composed by him . And so every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun . The gayest charm of beauty has a root in ...
... Divine mind , and is now only discovered and executed by the artist , not arbitrarily composed by him . And so every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun . The gayest charm of beauty has a root in ...
Page 125
... divine persons with us , and the multitude do not hasten to be divine . And yet we hold fast , all our lives long , a faith in a better life , in better men , in clean and noble relations , not withstanding our total inexperience of a ...
... divine persons with us , and the multitude do not hasten to be divine . And yet we hold fast , all our lives long , a faith in a better life , in better men , in clean and noble relations , not withstanding our total inexperience of a ...
Page 126
... divine building , if the soul will build thereon . There is no face , no form , which one cannot in fancy associate with great power of intellect or with generosity of soul . In our experience , to be sure , beauty is not , as it ought ...
... divine building , if the soul will build thereon . There is no face , no form , which one cannot in fancy associate with great power of intellect or with generosity of soul . In our experience , to be sure , beauty is not , as it ought ...
Page 167
... Divine Power and Manifestation , and in- dicating that those ancient men , in their attempts to express the Supreme Power of the universe , called him the Day , and that this name was ac- cepted by all the tribes . ' Hesiod wrote a poem ...
... Divine Power and Manifestation , and in- dicating that those ancient men , in their attempts to express the Supreme Power of the universe , called him the Day , and that this name was ac- cepted by all the tribes . ' Hesiod wrote a poem ...
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