Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin & Company, 1968 |
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Page 165
... poet , the good player . The poet uses the names of Cæsar , of Tamerlane , of Bonduca , ' of Belisarius ; the painter uses the conventional story of the Vir- gin Mary , of Paul , of Peter . He does not there- fore defer to the nature of ...
... poet , the good player . The poet uses the names of Cæsar , of Tamerlane , of Bonduca , ' of Belisarius ; the painter uses the conventional story of the Vir- gin Mary , of Paul , of Peter . He does not there- fore defer to the nature of ...
Page 417
... poetic traditions , yet , as a poet , and still young , he found pleasure in a Theme no poet gladly sung , Fair to old and foul to young , - as he calls it in the motto which he wrote for the second edi tion . An example of the fitness ...
... poetic traditions , yet , as a poet , and still young , he found pleasure in a Theme no poet gladly sung , Fair to old and foul to young , - as he calls it in the motto which he wrote for the second edi tion . An example of the fitness ...
Page 434
... poet , William Ellery Channing , in " The Poet's Hope , " - If my bark sinks , ' t is to another sea . Page 302 , note 1. The old doctrine of Heracleitus again , brought to the modern use of progress by evolution . The prophecies of ...
... poet , William Ellery Channing , in " The Poet's Hope , " - If my bark sinks , ' t is to another sea . Page 302 , note 1. The old doctrine of Heracleitus again , brought to the modern use of progress by evolution . The prophecies of ...
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action Amadis de Gaul appear beauty behold better Bonduca Boston character circle conversation divine doctrine earth Emerson Epaminondas essay eternal evil experience fact fear feel friendship genius George Willis Cooke give hand heart heaven Heraclitus Heroism hour human intellect John Sterling lecture less light live look man's ment mind moral nature ness never noble object Over-Soul painted pass Perceforest perfect persons Phidias Phocion Plato Plotinus Plutarch Poems poet poetry Polycrates present prudence Ralph Waldo Emerson relations religion Richard Garnett sculpture secret seems sense Shakspeare society Sophocles soul speak spirit stand sweet Synesius talent teach thee things thou thought tion to-day true truth ture universal virtue whilst whole William Ellery Channing wisdom wise words write Xenophon young youth