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" Over everything stands its daemon or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected by the eye, so the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody. The sea, the mountain-ridge, Niagara, and every flower-bed, pre-exist, or super-exist, in pre-cantations... "
Essays: Second Series - Page 27
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 313 pages
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...things into higher organic forms, is their change into melodies. Over everything stands its daemon, or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected...or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which sail like odours in the air, and when any man goes by with an ear sufficiently fine, he overhears them, and endeavours...
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Essays, Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 802 pages
...of things into higher organic forms is their change into melodies. Over everything stands its daemon or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected by the eye, so the soul of the thing ia reflected by a melody. The sea, the mountain-ridge, Niagara, and every flower-bed, pre-exist, or...
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That Dome in Air: Thoughts on Poetry and the Poets

John Vance Cheney - 1895 - 466 pages
...all-piercing, all-feeding, and ocular air of heaven." Elsewhere he adds, " Over everything stands its daemon, or soul ; and as the form of the thing is reflected...so the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody." "Melody" — here we come to the points of form and music. Beyond dispute, Emerson sees and tells ;...
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Essays. 1901

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...things into higher organic forms, is their change into melodies. Over everything stands its daemon, or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected...of the thing is reflected by a melody. The sea, the mountain ridge, Niagara, and every flower-bed, pre-exist, or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 382 pages
...of things into higher organic forms is their change into melodies. Over everything stands its daemon or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected...down the notes without diluting or depraving them. 1 And herein is the legitimation of criticism, in the mind's faith that the poems are a corrupt version...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 376 pages
...of things into higher organic forms is their change into melodies. Over everything stands its dasmon or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected...write down the notes without diluting or depraving them.1 And herein is the legitimation of criticism, in the mind's faith that the poems are a corrupt...
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The Art of Richard Wagner

William C. Ward - 1906 - 28 pages
...of things into higher organic forms is their change into melodies. Over everything stands its daemon or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected...or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which sail like odours in the air, and when any man goes by with an ear sufficiently fine, he overhears them, and endeavours...
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Essays and English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 pages
...things into higher organic forms, is their change into melodies. Over every thing stands its daemon, or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected by the eye, so_the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody. The sea, theV/ mountain-ridge, Niagara, and every...
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Literary Criticism: Pope to Croce

Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pages
...of things into higher organic forms is their change into melodies. Over everything stands its daemon or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected...of the thing is reflected by a melody. The sea, the mountain ridge, Niagara, and every flower bed, pre-exist, or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which...
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The Columbia Literary History of the United States

Emory Elliott - 1988 - 1312 pages
...new Scripture — returns to plague and baffle the argument of "The Poet." If it is really true that "the sea, the mountain-ridge, Niagara, and every flower-bed, pre-exist, or super-exist, in pre-cantations," then the poet is reduced from the status of liberating god to more or less faithful scribe, and his...
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