Essays, Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1868 - 274 pages |
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... persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures , and have an incli- nation for whatever is elegant ; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls , and whether their own acts are like fair pictures ...
... persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures , and have an incli- nation for whatever is elegant ; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls , and whether their own acts are like fair pictures ...
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... person in whom these powers are in balance , the man without impedi- ment , who sees and handles that which others dream of , traverses the whole scale of experience , and is representative of man , in virtue of being the largest power ...
... person in whom these powers are in balance , the man without impedi- ment , who sees and handles that which others dream of , traverses the whole scale of experience , and is representative of man , in virtue of being the largest power ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. tain ramble , a new style of face , a new person , may put the key into our hands . Of course , the value of genius to us is in the veracity of its report . Talent may frolic and juggle ; genius realizes and adds ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. tain ramble , a new style of face , a new person , may put the key into our hands . Of course , the value of genius to us is in the veracity of its report . Talent may frolic and juggle ; genius realizes and adds ...
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... persons who look on it become silent . The poet also resigns himself to his mood , and that thought which agitated him is expressed , but alter idem , in a manner totally new . The expression is The organic , or , the new type which ...
... persons who look on it become silent . The poet also resigns himself to his mood , and that thought which agitated him is expressed , but alter idem , in a manner totally new . The expression is The organic , or , the new type which ...
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... persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air . This is the effect on us of tropes , fables , oracles , and all poetic forms . Poets are thus liberating gods . Men have really got a new sense , and found within their world ...
... persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air . This is the effect on us of tropes , fables , oracles , and all poetic forms . Poets are thus liberating gods . Men have really got a new sense , and found within their world ...
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