Letters and Social AimsHoughton, Mifflin, 1875 - 285 páginas |
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... Poems . 10. Lectures and Biographical Sketches . 11. Miscellanies . 12. Natural History of Intellect , and other Papers . With a General Index to Emerson's Collected Works . New Little Classic Edition . 12 vols . , in arrangement and ...
... Poems . 10. Lectures and Biographical Sketches . 11. Miscellanies . 12. Natural History of Intellect , and other Papers . With a General Index to Emerson's Collected Works . New Little Classic Edition . 12 vols . , in arrangement and ...
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... poets and the joys of saints , the most imaginative and abstracted person never makes , with impunity , the least mistake in this particular , — never tries to kindle his oven with water , nor carries a torch into a powder - mill , nor ...
... poets and the joys of saints , the most imaginative and abstracted person never makes , with impunity , the least mistake in this particular , — never tries to kindle his oven with water , nor carries a torch into a powder - mill , nor ...
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... poetic key to Natural Science , — of which the theories of Geoffroy St. Hilaire , of Oken , of Goethe , of Agassiz , and Owen , and Darwin , in zoölogy and botany , are the fruits , a hint whose power is not yet exhausted , showing ...
... poetic key to Natural Science , — of which the theories of Geoffroy St. Hilaire , of Oken , of Goethe , of Agassiz , and Owen , and Darwin , in zoölogy and botany , are the fruits , a hint whose power is not yet exhausted , showing ...
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... poetic perception of metamorphosis , that the same vegetable point or eye which is the unit of the plant can be transformed at pleasure into every part , as bract , leaf , petal , stamen , pistil , or seed . In geology , what a useful ...
... poetic perception of metamorphosis , that the same vegetable point or eye which is the unit of the plant can be transformed at pleasure into every part , as bract , leaf , petal , stamen , pistil , or seed . In geology , what a useful ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. quickness or perception of relations . All its words are poems . It is a presence of mind that gives a miraculous . command of all means of uttering the thought and feeling of the moment . The poet squanders on the ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. quickness or perception of relations . All its words are poems . It is a presence of mind that gives a miraculous . command of all means of uttering the thought and feeling of the moment . The poet squanders on the ...
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Página 229 - And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I live and write; I once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing: O my only light, It cannot be That I am he, On whom thy tempests fell all night.
Página 42 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Página 42 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Página 74 - I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that " the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
Página 80 - Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Página 43 - Good, to whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance, Would send a glistering guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unassail'd. Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err, there does a sable cloud •Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove...
Página 233 - Did you never observe (while rocking winds are piping loud) that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an ^Eolian harp ? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit.
Página 258 - His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Página 27 - A Spirit and a Vision are not, as the modern philosophy supposes, a cloudy vapour, or a nothing: they are organized and minutely articulated beyond all that the mortal and perishing nature can produce. He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
Página 154 - Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.