Essays, Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1868 - 274 pages |
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Page 12
... force to arrive at the senses , but not enough to reach the quick , and compel the reproduction of themselves in speech . The poet is the person in whom these powers are in balance , the man without impedi- ment , who sees and handles ...
... force to arrive at the senses , but not enough to reach the quick , and compel the reproduction of themselves in speech . The poet is the person in whom these powers are in balance , the man without impedi- ment , who sees and handles ...
Page 25
... force impelling it to ascend into a higher form ; and , following with his eyes the life , uses the forms which express that life , and so his speech flows with the flowing of nature . All the facts of the animal economy , sex ...
... force impelling it to ascend into a higher form ; and , following with his eyes the life , uses the forms which express that life , and so his speech flows with the flowing of nature . All the facts of the animal economy , sex ...
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... leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval . We live amid surfaces , and the true art of life is to skate well on them . Under the · oldest mouldiest conventions , a man of native force prospers 62 ESSAY II . EXPERIENCE .
... leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval . We live amid surfaces , and the true art of life is to skate well on them . Under the · oldest mouldiest conventions , a man of native force prospers 62 ESSAY II . EXPERIENCE .
Page 63
Ralph Waldo Emerson. oldest mouldiest conventions , a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world , and that by skill of handling and treatment . He can take hold anywhere . Life itself is a mixture of power and form ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. oldest mouldiest conventions , a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world , and that by skill of handling and treatment . He can take hold anywhere . Life itself is a mixture of power and form ...
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... force supplied from the Eternal . The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable . The years teach much which the days never know . The persons who compose our company , converse , and come and go , and design and execute many ...
... force supplied from the Eternal . The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable . The years teach much which the days never know . The persons who compose our company , converse , and come and go , and design and execute many ...
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