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... poet . The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms . Miller owns this field , Locke that , and Manning the woodland beyond . But none of them owns the landscape . There is a ...
... poet . The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms . Miller owns this field , Locke that , and Manning the woodland beyond . But none of them owns the landscape . There is a ...
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... poet , the painter , the sculptor , the musician , the architect , seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point , and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce . Thus is ...
... poet , the painter , the sculptor , the musician , the architect , seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point , and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce . Thus is ...
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... poets , here and there , but man is an analogist , and studies relations in all objects . He is placed in the centre of beings , and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him . And neither can man be understood without ...
... poets , here and there , but man is an analogist , and studies relations in all objects . He is placed in the centre of beings , and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him . And neither can man be understood without ...
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... poet , the orator , bred in the woods , whose senses have been nourished by their fair and appeasing changes , year after year , with- out design and without heed , shall not lose their lesson altogether , in the roar of cities or the ...
... poet , the orator , bred in the woods , whose senses have been nourished by their fair and appeasing changes , year after year , with- out design and without heed , shall not lose their lesson altogether , in the roar of cities or the ...
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... 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 other times he is not blind and ...
... 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 other times he is not blind and ...
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| Title | Nature: Addresses, and Lectures Volume 1 of Riverside ed. Complete works |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 22 Oct 2013 |
| Length | 315 pages |
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