The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Six Volumes, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 77
... with perfect assur- ance , would confound merchant , banker , judge , men of influence and power , poet and president , and might head any party , unseat any sovereign , and abrogate any constitution in Europe and America . It ELOQUENCE 77.
... with perfect assur- ance , would confound merchant , banker , judge , men of influence and power , poet and president , and might head any party , unseat any sovereign , and abrogate any constitution in Europe and America . It ELOQUENCE 77.
Page 122
... poet or a com- mander , but to be a master of living well , and to administer the offices of master or servant , of husband , father and friend . But it requires as much breadth of power for this as for those other functions , as much ...
... poet or a com- mander , but to be a master of living well , and to administer the offices of master or servant , of husband , father and friend . But it requires as much breadth of power for this as for those other functions , as much ...
Page 153
... poet of any clime Milton , Firdusi , or Cervantes - would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature , comparable to sun and moon , rainbow and flood ; because he is , as all natural persons are , representative of Nature as ...
... poet of any clime Milton , Firdusi , or Cervantes - would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature , comparable to sun and moon , rainbow and flood ; because he is , as all natural persons are , representative of Nature as ...
Page 179
... poet , nor to his problems if he is only an algebraist ; but if a man is at once acquainted with the geometric founda- tions of things and with their festal splendor , his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical . And him I reckon ...
... poet , nor to his problems if he is only an algebraist ; but if a man is at once acquainted with the geometric founda- tions of things and with their festal splendor , his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical . And him I reckon ...
Page 182
... poet is never the poorer for his song . A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine . If the singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way of escape , I had rather have none . Those only can sleep who do not care ...
... poet is never the poorer for his song . A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine . If the singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way of escape , I had rather have none . Those only can sleep who do not care ...
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