The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 43
... poet for his own ends . The basis of music is the qualities of the air and the vibrations of sonorous bodies . The pul- sation of a stretched string or wire gives the ear the pleasure of sweet sound , before yet the musician has ...
... poet for his own ends . The basis of music is the qualities of the air and the vibrations of sonorous bodies . The pul- sation of a stretched string or wire gives the ear the pleasure of sweet sound , before yet the musician has ...
Page 46
... poet to a good fable . " The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater 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 ...
... poet to a good fable . " The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater 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 ...
Page 49
... poet aims at getting observations without aim ; to subject to thought things seen without ( voluntary ) thought . ' In eloquence , the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself ; when consciously he makes ...
... poet aims at getting observations without aim ; to subject to thought things seen without ( voluntary ) thought . ' In eloquence , the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself ; when consciously he makes ...
Page 50
... poet . The feeling of all great poets has accorded with this . They found the verse , not made it . The muse brought it to them . In sculpture , did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece ? Or say of the Laocoön how it might be made ...
... poet . The feeling of all great poets has accorded with this . They found the verse , not made it . The muse brought it to them . In sculpture , did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece ? Or say of the Laocoön how it might be made ...
Page 71
... poet brings him on the stage . Helen is pointing out to Priam , from a tower , the differ- ent Grecian chiefs . " The old man asked : ' Tell me , dear child , who is that man , shorter by a head than Agamemnon , yet he looks broader in ...
... poet brings him on the stage . Helen is pointing out to Priam , from a tower , the differ- ent Grecian chiefs . " The old man asked : ' Tell me , dear child , who is that man , shorter by a head than Agamemnon , yet he looks broader in ...
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