Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page vii
... expression of the health and soundness of Nature , a brag for all the world - healthiness as of a spring burst forth . The merit of this bird's strain is its freedom from all plaintiveness . The singer can easily move us to tears or to ...
... expression of the health and soundness of Nature , a brag for all the world - healthiness as of a spring burst forth . The merit of this bird's strain is its freedom from all plaintiveness . The singer can easily move us to tears or to ...
Page ix
... expression in his books , to suppress the personal equation , and to utter clear of accidental im- plications the revelations of that Universal Mind whose organ he believed himself and all other men to be . On this account Emerson's ...
... expression in his books , to suppress the personal equation , and to utter clear of accidental im- plications the revelations of that Universal Mind whose organ he believed himself and all other men to be . On this account Emerson's ...
Page x
... expression , given to desultory reading of the Elizabethans , of the new poetry of Wordsworth , Coleridge , and their contem- poraries , and of the English Reviews . But we must pass by this and so much else upon which Mr. Cabot throws ...
... expression , given to desultory reading of the Elizabethans , of the new poetry of Wordsworth , Coleridge , and their contem- poraries , and of the English Reviews . But we must pass by this and so much else upon which Mr. Cabot throws ...
Page xxi
... expression to his own best impressions and insights . The expression was , he thought , the main matter : " expression is what we want ; not knowledge , but vent , . . an utterance whole , generous , sustained , equal , and graduated at ...
... expression to his own best impressions and insights . The expression was , he thought , the main matter : " expression is what we want ; not knowledge , but vent , . . an utterance whole , generous , sustained , equal , and graduated at ...
Page xxiv
... expression of what in us is cramped and small . " It is a corollary of this view of things , that Nature is as divine and Man's possibili- ties are as great to - day as ever they were . " An everlasting Now reigns in Nature , which ...
... expression of what in us is cramped and small . " It is a corollary of this view of things , that Nature is as divine and Man's possibili- ties are as great to - day as ever they were . " An everlasting Now reigns in Nature , which ...
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