Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 21
... first of painters . There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful . And the stimulus it affords to the sense , and a sort of infinitude which it hath , like space and . time , make all matter gay . Even the corpse.
... first of painters . There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful . And the stimulus it affords to the sense , and a sort of infinitude which it hath , like space and . time , make all matter gay . Even the corpse.
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Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. time , make all matter gay . Even the corpse has its own beauty . But besides this general grace diffused over nature , almost all the individual forms are agreeable to the eye , as is proved ...
Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. time , make all matter gay . Even the corpse has its own beauty . But besides this general grace diffused over nature , almost all the individual forms are agreeable to the eye , as is proved ...
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... matter is not fancied by some poet , but stands in the will of God , and so is free to be known by all men . It appears to men , or it does not appear . When in fortunate hours we ponder this miracle , the wise man doubts if at all ...
... matter is not fancied by some poet , but stands in the will of God , and so is free to be known by all men . It appears to men , or it does not appear . When in fortunate hours we ponder this miracle , the wise man doubts if at all ...
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... matter is a school for the understanding , its solidity or re- sistance , its inertia , its extension , its figure , its di- visibility . The understanding adds , divides , com- bines , measures , and finds nutriment and room for its ...
... matter is a school for the understanding , its solidity or re- sistance , its inertia , its extension , its figure , its di- visibility . The understanding adds , divides , com- bines , measures , and finds nutriment and room for its ...
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... matter as sym- bols of it . The sensual man conforms thoughts to things ; the poet conforms things to his thoughts . The one esteems nature as rooted and fast ; the other , as fluid , and impresses his being thereon . To him , the ...
... matter as sym- bols of it . The sensual man conforms thoughts to things ; the poet conforms things to his thoughts . The one esteems nature as rooted and fast ; the other , as fluid , and impresses his being thereon . To him , the ...
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