The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Six Volumes, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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... sense , recognizing the Spirit which informs Nature , Plato rightly said , “ Those things which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art . " Art , univer- sally , is the spirit creative . It was defined by Aristotle ...
... sense , recognizing the Spirit which informs Nature , Plato rightly said , “ Those things which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art . " Art , univer- sally , is the spirit creative . It was defined by Aristotle ...
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... our best sense of any work of art to the author . The highest praise we can attribute to any writer , painter , sculptor , builder , is , that he actually pos- sessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired 46 ART.
... our best sense of any work of art to the author . The highest praise we can attribute to any writer , painter , sculptor , builder , is , that he actually pos- sessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired 46 ART.
Page 47
... sense we affix to it . We grudge to Homer the wide human circumspection his commentators ascribe to him . Even Shakspeare , of whom we can believe everything , we think indebted to Goethe and to Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in ...
... sense we affix to it . We grudge to Homer the wide human circumspection his commentators ascribe to him . Even Shakspeare , of whom we can believe everything , we think indebted to Goethe and to Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in ...
Page 64
... sense of added power and enlarged sympathetic existence . The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude , and concentrating their valors and powers : - - " But now the blood of twenty thousand men Blushed 64 ELOQUENCE.
... sense of added power and enlarged sympathetic existence . The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude , and concentrating their valors and powers : - - " But now the blood of twenty thousand men Blushed 64 ELOQUENCE.
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... sense of this necessity when he wrote , " Good Fortune , " as his motto on his shield . As we know , the power of discourse of certain individuals amounts to fascination , though it may have no lasting effect . Some portion of this ...
... sense of this necessity when he wrote , " Good Fortune , " as his motto on his shield . As we know , the power of discourse of certain individuals amounts to fascination , though it may have no lasting effect . Some portion of this ...
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Æschylus appears astronomy beauty Ben Jonson better called charm civil club Confucius conversation courage dæmons delight Demosthenes divine earth eloquence Emerson essay face fact feel force Gawain genius give Goethe Greece Hafiz hand hear heard heart heaven human imagination inspiration intel intellect Jotun journal king labor lecture live look Madame de Staël manners master Merlin mind moral nations Nature never Odoacer orator perception Persian persons Pindar Plato Plutarch poem poet poetry political RALPH WALDO EMERSON rhyme Saadi scholar sense sentence sentiment Shakspeare Simorg society Socrates song soul speak speech spirit talent things thou thought Timur tion true truth ture verse Viasa virtue voice whilst whole wise words write wrote young youth Zoroaster