The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 85
Page 50
... feeling of all great poets has accorded with this . They found the verse , not made it . The muse brought it to them . In sculpture , did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece ? Or say of the Laocoön how it might be made different ...
... feeling of all great poets has accorded with this . They found the verse , not made it . The muse brought it to them . In sculpture , did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece ? Or say of the Laocoön how it might be made different ...
Page 53
... feel , in seeing a noble build- ing , which rhymes well , as we do in hearing a perfect song , that it is spiritually organic ; that is , had a necessity , in Nature , for being ; was one of the possible forms in the Divine mind , and ...
... feel , in seeing a noble build- ing , which rhymes well , as we do in hearing a perfect song , that it is spiritually organic ; that is , had a necessity , in Nature , for being ; was one of the possible forms in the Divine mind , and ...
Page 62
... feeling of the energy of the engine , and the cu- riosity men feel to touch the springs . Of all the musical instruments on which men play , a popu- lar assembly is that which has the largest com- pass and variety , and out of which ...
... feeling of the energy of the engine , and the cu- riosity men feel to touch the springs . Of all the musical instruments on which men play , a popu- lar assembly is that which has the largest com- pass and variety , and out of which ...
Page 67
... feels himself to make too large a part of the assem- bly , and shudders with cold at the thinness of the morning audience , and with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech , mere energy and mellowness are then ...
... feels himself to make too large a part of the assem- bly , and shudders with cold at the thinness of the morning audience , and with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech , mere energy and mellowness are then ...
Page 90
... feel as if they already possessed some new right and power over a fact which they can detach , and so completely master in thought . It is a wonder- ful aid to the memory , which carries away the image and never loses it . A popular ...
... feel as if they already possessed some new right and power over a fact which they can detach , and so completely master in thought . It is a wonder- ful aid to the memory , which carries away the image and never loses it . A popular ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Æschylus appears astronomy beauty Ben Jonson better Boston called character charm civil club conversation courage dæmons delight Demosthenes divine earth eloquence Emerson England essay eternal experience fact feel genius give Goethe Hafiz heard heart heaven hour human imagination immortality inspiration intel intellect Jotun journal labor learned lecture live look Madame de Staël manners Margaret Fuller master mind moral nations Nature never Odoacer orator Over-Soul passage persons Phi Beta Kappa Pindar plants Plato Plutarch poem poet poetry RALPH WALDO EMERSON rhyme Saadi scholar seems sense sentence sentiment Shakspeare society Socrates solitude song soul speak speech spirit talent things thou thought tion truth ture verses voice whilst wise wish words write wrote young youth Zoroaster