The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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... cities . We know more from nature than we can at will com- municate . Its light flows into the mind evermore , and we forget its presence . The poet , the orator , bred in the woods , whose senses have been nour- ished by their fair and ...
... cities . We know more from nature than we can at will com- municate . Its light flows into the mind evermore , and we forget its presence . The poet , the orator , bred in the woods , whose senses have been nour- ished by their fair and ...
Page 120
... cities , and the captains , history delights to honor . But when the mind opens and reveals the laws which traverse the universe and make things what they are , then shrinks the great world at once into a mere illustration and fable of ...
... cities , and the captains , history delights to honor . But when the mind opens and reveals the laws which traverse the universe and make things what they are , then shrinks the great world at once into a mere illustration and fable of ...
Page 174
... , and all places are friendly and sacred . The poets who have lived in cities have been hermits still . Inspiration makes solitude anywhere . Pindar , Raphael , Angelo , Dryden , De Staƫl , dwell in crowds 174 LITERARY ETHICS.
... , and all places are friendly and sacred . The poets who have lived in cities have been hermits still . Inspiration makes solitude anywhere . Pindar , Raphael , Angelo , Dryden , De Staƫl , dwell in crowds 174 LITERARY ETHICS.
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