 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 560 pages
...lose ever and anon a word or a verse, and substitute something of our own and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences...transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of Nations." He saw the stream of Nature and Spirit always flowing, and he told his friend Dr. Bartol,... | |
 | 1905 - 798 pages
...ever and anon a word, or a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus we miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences...transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of nations." The poet according to Emerson is " the sayer," " the namer," " the emperor in his own right."... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 348 pages
...lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, tho imperfect, become the songs of the nations. Words and deeds are quite indifferent modes of the... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1912 - 702 pages
...lose ever and anon a word or a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences...must as much appear as it must be done or be known Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not tbe children of music. The argument is secondary, the... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...ever and anon a word, or a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences...though imperfect, become the songs of the nations. AX that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1978 - 406 pages
...ever and anon a word, or a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences...though imperfect, become the songs of the nations." "As the eyes of Lyncaeus were said to see through the earth, so the poet turns the world to glass,... | |
 | René Wellek - 1977 - 396 pages
...lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences...though imperfect, become the songs of the nations.« 82. Siehe Nelson F. Adkins, »Emerson and the Hardie Tradition«, PMLA, 63 (1948), 662 — 77. 83.... | |
 | Frank Lentricchia - 1980 - 406 pages
...lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences...transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations.52 The poem must be "miswritten," since what the poet does is to try to bring down into time... | |
 | Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe... For Nature is as truly beautiful as it is good, or as it is reasonable, and must as much appear, äs it must be done, or be known. Words and deeds are quite indifferent modes of the divine energy.... | |
 | Jarava Lal Mehta - 1992 - 346 pages
...lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences...known. Words and deeds are quite indifferent modes of divine energy. Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words ... The sign and credentials... | |
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... written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute... 
